Quotes from Sid Caesar

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

Every language has its own music.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What it boiled down to is the strength to be able to say, 'I don't want to think about it.' Thinking negatively is the result of guilt and insecurity... You are the person who makes yourself happy. You're the person who makes yourself sad. It's much easier to feel better when you keep remembering that." [-p.481, "Caesar's Hours, My Life in Comedy with Love and Laughter", by Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld, 2003]

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.

There's humor in the little things that people did. If you showed them how they looked when they did what they did, people would laugh.

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.

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

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.