Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default. |
I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not. |
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 watched every single Charlie Chaplin film. |
It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering. |
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. |
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. |
Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming. |
They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase. |
I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now. |
Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars. |
It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it. |
Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money. |
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. |
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish. |
I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good. |
All my children inherited perfect pitch. |
The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was. |
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. |