Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

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.

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.

Don't be a slave to society!

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.

Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one.