Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Chevy Chase - Page 2

I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.

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.

The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.

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

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

There's no vacation from being a parent.

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

When I saw 'Caddyshack,' I realized I couldn't act.

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

It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

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!'

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

It seemed that my brother and I were always fighting in the back seat, and there was never any real reason for it.

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

Avoid fatty foods, Bensonhurst, and hair care products.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

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

I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

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

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 am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!

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.

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

Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'

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.

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

What makes a home home? Animals, and a little bit of clutter.

How much do I owe you?

I guess I look so straight and normal nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition. 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 going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

I am a clown, just without the painted smile.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.