Chevy Chase Quotes
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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 was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.
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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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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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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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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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If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
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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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I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.
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If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.
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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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Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
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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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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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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
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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 just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
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I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.
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I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.
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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.