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

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

Sid Caesar

#Laughter Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Humor Quotes

“In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”
“What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.”
“I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.”
“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.”
“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”
“India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.”
“Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.”

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