140 Quotes by Chevy Chase

For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

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

Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!

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

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.

The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

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.

It seemed that my brother and I were always fighting in the back seat, and there was never any real reason for it.