I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of 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.

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

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.