Chevy Chase Quotes

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Chevy Chase

Profession : Comedian

Birth : October 8, 1943

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

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

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I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

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

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You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.

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I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

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My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

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The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.

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I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!

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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.

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

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What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

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

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

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I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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