Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.