Chevy Chase

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

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

“Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.”

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

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

“I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.”

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

“We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.”

“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.”

“It's so important, people laughing.”

“It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.”

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

“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.”

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

“Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.”

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

“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...”

“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.”

“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 preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.”