Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Chevy Chase
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Chevy Chase.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
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.
I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.
I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.
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?'
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.
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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.
The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
All those car battles with my brother Ned were excellent training. Even now, on the set, if we're getting into a vehicle, I'll yell 'shotgun' first. Thus forcing Steve Martin into the back of the car.
Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!
You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.
I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.
The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.
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.
It's so important, people laughing.
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.
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.
The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.
I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.
Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.
Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.
All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.
Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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.
It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?
We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.
'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.
I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.
I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.
Thank God I have the right friends.
It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
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.
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.
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.
It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.
What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.
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 think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.
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.
If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
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