Chevy Chase Quotes
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I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
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I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.
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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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If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.
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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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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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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 turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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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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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
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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 have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.
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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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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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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
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I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.
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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 was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.