Quotes from Chevy Chase

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

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!'

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

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

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.

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

How much do I owe you?

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.

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.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

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

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.

'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.

I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 am a clown, just without the painted smile.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.