The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's so perfectly Bill." He'd read it and say, "Are you kidding? I can't say these words." So it's all about perception.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.