Chase: "A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me."

Chase: "For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder."

Chase: "It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

Chase: "I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again."

Chase: "The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land."

Chase: "The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there."

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

Chase: "I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking."

Chase: "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."

Chase: "Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have."

Chase: "You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me."

Chase: "You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts."

Chase: "In this business, you can come and go in a second."