You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

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.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Your work is your destiny.

Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.