Chevy Chase Quotes

I come from standup and improv.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

I don't consider myself a comedian, but you work with some comedians, and sometimes these guys are incredible on their feet - it's just amazing - and that's not what I do. But it's always fun, and I don't really care as long as the character is interesting.

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

I am still a comic, a fantastic one.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.