Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Buddy Hackett

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Buddy Hackett.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett was an American actor, comedian and singer. His best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968), and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).

At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
I was born to be funny. — © Buddy Hackett
I was born to be funny.
Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.
A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.
A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
I'm an actor. I want to do drama.
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.
Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.
Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.
Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing? — © Buddy Hackett
Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.
The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it
There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.
My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"
If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.
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