Chevy Chase

“It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.”

“It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.”

“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.”

“I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.”

“It will eventually be discovered that the more you sleep, the healthier you are. Which means you'll really be at your healthiest when you pass away.”

“The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.”

“Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.”

“Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.”

“A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.”

“I'd never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.”

“Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.”

“You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.”

“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.”

“Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.”

“I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.”

“What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.”

“The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.”