140 Quotes by Chevy Chase

It will eventually be discovered that the more you sleep, the healthier you are. Which means you'll really be at your healthiest when you pass away.

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

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.

I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.

I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.

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

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

It's so important, people laughing.

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