Chevy Chase Quotes

People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that.

I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.

My showbiz career started with 'SNL,' and to write an 'SNL' book... well, there are already enough of those.

It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.

The only show I ever really wanted to do was 'SNL.' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn't even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

I was hired as an assistant at 'SNL' in 2002.

'Saturday Night Live' was 100% the most surreal TV we've ever done. Leonardo DiCaprio was on the same show.

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it.

It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.