Chevy Chase Quotes
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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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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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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
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It's so important, people laughing.
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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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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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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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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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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.
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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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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 watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
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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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I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
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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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It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.
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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
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If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.
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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.