Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.
Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'
I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.
I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.
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.
Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily To...
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fas...