We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

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.

You are definitely too blessed to be walking around with a heart full of grudges.

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.