Quotes from Chevy Chase

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

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

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.

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

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

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

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

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

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?'

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

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.

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

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.

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.