Chevy Chase Quotes
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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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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
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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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Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.
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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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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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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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I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
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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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Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.
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I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
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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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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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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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I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.
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I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
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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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Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.
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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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Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.
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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.