Sid Caesar Quotes

#1. If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

Jamie Farr

#2. In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

Ed O'Neill

#3. I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

Alan Alda

#4. Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

Ben Stein

#5. I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

Marlo Thomas

#6. I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

Red Buttons

#7. Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

Carl Reiner

#8. From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Billy Crystal

#9. I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

James Baldwin

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

Sid Caesar

#11. Let us watch the kiddo. We're her godparents, right?' He held up a hand, keeping me from answering. 'I mean, I know you haven't decided yet, but we'd be way better than Chloe and Bennett because let's be real: they're assholes.

Christina Lauren

#12. 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.

Sid Caesar

#13. They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

Gary Dornhoefer

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

#16. The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

Timothy Mo

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

Sid Caesar

#18. Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

#22. If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.

Pinchas Lapide

#23. Every language has its own music.

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

#25. He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

Claire Tomalin

#26. My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

Larry Norman

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

#29. 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.

Sid Caesar

#30. 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!

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

#32. You become what you behold.

William Blake

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

#35. She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

John Mayer