Chevy Chase

“I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.”

“If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.”

“Avoid fatty foods, Bensonhurst, and hair care products.”

“Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.”

“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?'”

“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.”

“All my children inherited perfect pitch.”

“I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.”

“What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.”

“There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.”

“I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.”

“There's no vacation from being a parent.”

“I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.”

“I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.”

“Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.”

“I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.”

“Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.”

“In this business, you can come and go in a second.”

“Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.”

“Thank God I have the right friends.”