Buddy Hackett Quotes

#1. Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

Bob Newhart

#2. I miss seeing real comics, Shecky Greene and Buddy Hackett, those types. I like straight stand-up, talking about the Olympics and why I feel obligated to watch them. 'Why am I watching archery at 4 in the afternoon?'

Norm MacDonald

#3. My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

Al Franken

#4. When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

Marc Maron

#5. I went into the lunchroom. A stocky young girl in a soiled green jumper sat at a table reading a fan magazine. She got up slowly when the screen door creaked. She had enormous breasts and she looked like Buddy Hackett.

John D. MacDonald

#6. The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

Ajahn Chah

#7. My headache was worse than ever. I groaned, raising my right hand to my temple, and the last of the comfortable darkness dissolved, leaving me inarguably awake. Damn. "Toby?

Seanan McGuire

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

Buddy Hackett

#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

Buddy Hackett

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

Buddy Hackett

#13. The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

Zara Phillips

#14. 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.

Buddy Hackett

#15. I was born to be funny.

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

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

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

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#21. If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Pope Francis

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

Buddy Hackett

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

Buddy Hackett

#24. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.

L. Frank Baum

#25. 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.

Buddy Hackett

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

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

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#29. From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

Alice Morse Earle

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

Buddy Hackett

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

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#33. Barbara rearranged herself on the blanket, and the crowd howled a mass downward arpeggio when Enfield took the ball back. It's all right, it's okay, you're gonna work for us someday, rose the cheer from the Sheffield side.

Stephanie Clifford

#34. I'm not the witch in the family!

Ichabod

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

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#36. God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God's merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.

Patrick Madrid

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

Buddy Hackett

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

Buddy Hackett

#39. Self-attachment is the first sign of madness, but it is because man is attached to himself that he accepts error as truth, lies as reality, violence and ugliness as beauty and justice.

Michel Foucault