Top 24 Buddy Hackett Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"

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#3. A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.

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#4. Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

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#5. I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Don't carry a grudge; while you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.

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#8. The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

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#9. What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

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#10. I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.

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#11. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

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#12. There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

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#16. You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

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#17. 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.

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#18. I was born to be funny.

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#19. Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

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#20. 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.

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#21. A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

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#22. 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.

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#23. If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.

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#24. Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

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