I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.