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Chevy
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

Picture
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Nov 07, 2020

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.

Fans
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Nov 07, 2020

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

Nov 07, 2020

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

Fun
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Nov 07, 2020

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

Nov 07, 2020

If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.

Nov 07, 2020

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

Funny
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Nov 07, 2020

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Laugh
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Charlie
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Nov 07, 2020

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

House
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Half
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Nov 07, 2020

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Romantic
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Nov 07, 2020

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

Nov 07, 2020

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

Few
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Nov 07, 2020

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

Making
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Nov 07, 2020

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

Person
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

May
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

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

First Thing
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Media
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Nov 07, 2020

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Comedy
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Most
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Attitude
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Observe
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Fall
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Humor
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Father
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Grace
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Nov 07, 2020

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

Children
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Nov 07, 2020

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

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Care
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Come And Go
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nobody
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Hot
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Laugh
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Need
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Impossible
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Brother
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Brother
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Nov 07, 2020

All those car battles with my brother Ned were excellent training. Even now, on the set, if we're getting into a vehicle, I'll yell 'shotgun' first. Thus forcing Steve Martin into the back of the car.

Heady
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Easy
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Nov 07, 2020

Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.

Laughter
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Nov 07, 2020

All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.

Funny
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Nov 07, 2020

Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

Loved
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Clark
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Nov 07, 2020

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

Many
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Nov 07, 2020

I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.

Room
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Makes
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Nov 07, 2020

For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

Chaplin
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Nov 07, 2020

It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

Dragged
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Hot
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Nov 07, 2020

If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.

Funny
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Nov 07, 2020

Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.

Nov 07, 2020

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 Am
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Money
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Nov 07, 2020

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.

Laugh
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Parent
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Nov 07, 2020

There's no vacation from being a parent.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Noise
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Nov 07, 2020

Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.

Nov 07, 2020

I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Funny
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.

Five
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Nov 07, 2020

I'd never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.

Nov 07, 2020

When I saw 'Caddyshack,' I realized I couldn't act.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.

Care
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Nov 07, 2020

Avoid fatty foods, Bensonhurst, and hair care products.

Fame
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Nov 07, 2020

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

Humor
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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!'

Live
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.

God
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Nov 07, 2020

Thank God I have the right friends.

Nov 07, 2020

It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.

Political
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Guy
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Nov 07, 2020

It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.

Fashion
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Nov 07, 2020

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?'

Director
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Nov 07, 2020

Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'

Laughing
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Nov 07, 2020

It's so important, people laughing.

Great Things
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Nov 07, 2020

Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

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