John Candy

“I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.”

“I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.”

“You can escape into a character.”

“I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.”

“I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.”

“My big break down here was working with Steven Spielberg in '1941.' It was a very small role, as Corporal Foley, who was part of the tank crew with Dan Aykroyd.”

“I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.”

“I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.”

“Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.”

“My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.”

“I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.”

“You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.”

“Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.”

“I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.”

“My salary for 'Splash' was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for 'Summer Rental.' So, yes, I thought, 'Well, here's a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.'”

“I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.”

“Your intention going in is to do the best you can. You go in and do your work, day to day, the best you can. But it's entirely up to the director and the editor and the producers and the studio how it turns out.”

“I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.”

“I think NBC bought SCTV because it was developing a nice cult feel.”

“The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.”