Chevy Chase Quotes
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All those car battles with my brother Ned were excellent training. Even now, on the set, if we're getting into a vehicle, I'll yell 'shotgun' first. Thus forcing Steve Martin into the back of the car.
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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
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Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
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The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.
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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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It's so important, people laughing.
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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!'
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If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
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With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
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I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.
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It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
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I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.
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Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.
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There's no vacation from being a parent.
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Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.
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Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'
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My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
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If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.
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It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.