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.

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.

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

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the body.

Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

Riches can be stolen-not richness.

Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more.

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.