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 fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'

Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

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

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

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

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

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 come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.