Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Sid Caesar

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Isaac Sidney Caesar was an American comic actor, comedian and writer. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows (1950–1954), which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people and its successor, Caesar's Hour (1954–1957), both of which influenced later generations of comedians. Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. He also acted in movies; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), Cannonball Run II (1984), and Vegas Vacation (1997).

American - Actor | September 8, 1922 - February 12, 2014

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

Sid Caesar

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

Every language has its own music.

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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.

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

Sid Caesar

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

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.

Sid Caesar