Chevy Chase Quotes
If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.
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Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
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People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
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If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'
