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Quotes by Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase

“Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.”

“Im Chevy Chase, and youre not.”

“The BlackBerry is arguably the best wireless e-mail device in the world,”

“The wireless industry needs to think about what to do about wireless vice before government decides for us,”

“Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma,”

“Are you who I think you are?”

“She is alone and we have no family there, ... She has been asking me to move to Los Angeles. I have spent months considering this. I love my patients but my daughter must come first.”

“I kept giving her donkey ears.”

“Certainly, on many occasions, as far as their mistresses, broken marriages and financial affairs are concerned, customers would confide in us,”

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

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

Lets not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. Its timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

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

Comparing Christmas Vacation to Its 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, Thats all they had to write about?

Frank Capras grandson was a second Assistant Director on Christmas Vacation.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didnt handle it well.

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.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

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

I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; were so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the its all about me kind of thing.