Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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.
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.
I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
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...