Chevy Chase Quotes
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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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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
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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 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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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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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.
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Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.
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Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.
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Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.
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Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.
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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'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
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Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.
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I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.
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Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
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There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.
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It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
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I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
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I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.
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I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.
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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.
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I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
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We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.