Chevy Chase Quotes
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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 '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 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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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 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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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
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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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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
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I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.
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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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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.