Chevy Chase Quotes

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Chevy Chase

Profession : Comedian

Birth : October 8, 1943

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.

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

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All my children inherited perfect pitch.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.

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

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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?'

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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 a big crybaby.

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

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For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.

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

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

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

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The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.

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

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