Sid Caesar Quotes & Sayings

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. — 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 guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. — Sid Caesar

If I don't believe it, I don't care. — Sid Caesar

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

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

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

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

Every language has its own music. — Sid Caesar

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

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

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

There's a now, a was, and a gonna be. Now is now, and after now is a was. And what comes after the was is a gonna be. It hasn't happened yet. It's gonna happen as soon as the now is over. But if you have a good now, you're bound to have a good was and a good gonna be. But after the bad now comes a bad was. But if you have a bad now and dwell on it, you're going to have a bad gonna be and you're going to have a bad cycle. If you learn from the bad was, you can turn the bad gonna be into a good gonna be. The only way you can change the cycle is after the was. If you carry the bad wases around with you, they get heavy and become should'a could'as - I should'a done this, I could'a done that.
If you learn from the was, you'll have a great now; you won't repeat the same mistakes. It will bring you to a good now, which changes the cycle to a good was, and a good gonna be. You need to learn from the wases. It's all about changing your attitude. — Sid Caesar

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

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