B.C. Chase Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

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

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

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

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

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

I think people are intolerant of artists.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

Cancer don't respect nothing.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

People get so tired of the '60s.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.

We do not die with those we mourn.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.