"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."

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Source : "The words and comedy of Sid Caesar" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2014.

Sid Caesar

#Uncles Quotes #Fun Quotes #People Quotes

“By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.”

Source : "Last night's TV" by Nancy Banks-Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.
“Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.”
“In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perhaps the most important things.”
“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.”
“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.”
“Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.”
“But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.”

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