Chevy Chase Quotes

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.

I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

You can't believe everything you hear on the Internet.

Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

You can't believe everything you read.