The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

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.

We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.

The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.