Sid Caesar Quotations

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

If I don't believe it, I don't care.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.

I didn't allow cue cards because, to my mind, when you're acting with someone you listen when they speak,

The remote control changed our lives, ... The remote control took over the timing of the world. That's why you have road rage. You have people who have no patience, because you got immediate gratification. You got click, click, click, click. If it doesn't explode within three seconds, click click, click.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself.If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, 'Gee, that's like Uncle David', or 'That's like a friend of mine'. And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

Every language has its own music.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!