Chevy Chase Quotes

When I saw 'Caddyshack,' I realized I couldn't act.

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• Everything that I design I would wear myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Everything

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Grow
  • Only

• It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • School
  • Money

• Strong families are vital to strong societies.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Strong
  • Families
  • VItal

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Will
  • Anything

• I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Listening
  • Online

• Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Money
  • Short

• When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Sing
  • Started
  • Maybe

• Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Training
  • Acting

• You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Great
  • True
  • Reality

• Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Free
  • Freedom

• His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity - This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleatsThe herd back to the pit of being.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Up
  • Devil

• They say we learn from mistakes, that’s why they mistake me.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • Why
  • Mistake

• While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael’s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he’d once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Hand

• The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • People
  • Civilization
  • Thieves

• Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Past

• When I saw 'Caddyshack,' I realized I couldn't act.

  

  Chevy Chase