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

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.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

The only things that I expect are miracles.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.