Top 55 Hackett Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
Chris Squire
#3. Because if someone owed me several thousand, and then stole from my house, and then I found out he had the money and didn't pay me back, I'd be pretty pissed," Hackett said.
E.C. Diskin
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
Al Franken
#7. When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
Marc Maron
#8. Hackett had plenty of maxillary damage.
Lee Child
#9. 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
#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.
Buddy Hackett
#11. These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.
Steve Hackett
#12. I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
Steve Hackett
#13. The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
David Hackett Fischer
#14. You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
Buddy Hackett
#16. It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?
Steve Hackett
#19. Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride.
Bobby Hackett
#22. Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?
Buddy Hackett
#23. 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.
Buddy Hackett
#24. A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
Buddy Hackett
#25. 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.
Buddy Hackett
#26. All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.
Joan Hackett
#27. I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.
Bobby Hackett
#28. If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.
Buddy Hackett
#29. Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.
Buddy Hackett
#31. At this point, Underwood turns to us and remarks that "the only thing more satisfying than convincing someone to do what I want is failing to persuade them on purpose. It's like a Do Not Enter sign - it just begs you to walk through the door.
J. Edward Hackett
#33. I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.
Joan Hackett
#34. 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
#35. My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"
Buddy Hackett
#36. A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
Buddy Hackett
#37. Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
Buddy Hackett
#38. We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
Steve Hackett
#39. By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it.
James P Hackett
#40. I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.
Buddy Hackett
#41. 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.
Buddy Hackett
#42. Don't carry a grudge; while you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.
Buddy Hackett
#43. Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
Steve Hackett
#44. 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.
Buddy Hackett
#45. Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.
David Hackett Fischer
#46. So, I may not be an expert on fathers, but I know that anyone who makes you feel less than worthy, especially someone who I believe is supposed to love and protect you, is not worth your effort.
Anna Hackett
#47. The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it
Buddy Hackett
#48. Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
Steve Hackett
#49. Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.
James P Hackett
#50. What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
Buddy Hackett
#51. I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.
Buddy Hackett
#52. What will i do without it ? ill die that's what. ill just....die!"
"go on then. i dare you" I said. Jess went on raving, completely ignoring my invitation.
Dave Hackett
#53. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett
#54. I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
Steve Hackett
#55. There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
Buddy Hackett
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