Chevy Chase

Comedian

1943-10-08

Quotes by Chevy Chase

• The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.

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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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• I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.

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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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• 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.

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• They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

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• You know, if you shoot me you'll lose a lot of these humanitarian awards.

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