Chevy Chase Quotes

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

~ Chevy Chase

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

~ Chevy Chase

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.

~ 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.

~ Chevy Chase

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?'

~ Chevy Chase

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

~ Chevy Chase

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

~ Chevy Chase

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

~ Chevy Chase

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

~ Chevy Chase

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.

~ Chevy Chase

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.

~ Chevy Chase