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

I am a clown, just without the painted smile.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

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.

I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.