Chevy Chase Quotes

Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

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• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Think
  • Today
  • Fighting

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • I Wish

• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

  Laura Linney
  • Love
  • Father
  • Think

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Professional
  • Same
  • Strength

• I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Like

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Always

• Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Art
  • Journalism

• Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Live
  • Nice

• It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • You
  • Enough
  • Swing

• The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Belief
  • Tongue
  • Hug

• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Reading

• The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • People
  • Fly

• Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Time
  • Money
  • Taken

• I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

  

  Candida Hofer
  • Artist
  • Interest
  • Statements

• Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Sleep
  • Animal

• Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

  

  Jeffrey Katzenberg
  • People
  • Business
  • Remember

• Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Business
  • Funny