Chevy Chase Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
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Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.
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I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.
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Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
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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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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 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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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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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'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
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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 was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.
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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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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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Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.
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It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?
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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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'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.