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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.

Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.