Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesarwas an American comic actor and writer, best known for the pioneering 1950s live television series Your Show of Shows, a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people and its successor, Caesar's Hour, both of which influenced later generations of comedians. He also acted in movies; he played Coach Calhoun in Greaseand its sequel Grease 2and appeared in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Silent Movie, History of the World, Part I, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth8 September 1922
CityYonkers, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I didn't allow cue cards because, to my mind, when you're acting with someone you listen when they speak,
When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.
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.
If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.
If I don't believe it, I don't care.
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. 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.
When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
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!
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.
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.