A biography for Chevy Chasehasn’t been written yet.
“I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.”
“I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!”
“Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'”
“You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.”
“I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.”
“For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.”
“It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.”
“I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.”
“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.”
“I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.”
“I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.”
“The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.”
“They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.”
“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.”
“If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'”
“It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.”
“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.”
“Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.”
“My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.”
“All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.”