Chevy Chase Quotes
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Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
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It's so important, people laughing.
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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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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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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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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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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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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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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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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 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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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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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've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.
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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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I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
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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.
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When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.