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Buddy Hackett

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

— Buddy Hackett family

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 time

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

— Buddy Hackett strange

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.

— Buddy Hackett people

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 people

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 time

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

— Buddy Hackett art

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 people

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

— Buddy Hackett world

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 self

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

— Buddy Hackett war

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

— Buddy Hackett self

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

— Buddy Hackett death

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.

— Buddy Hackett time

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.

— Buddy Hackett body

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

— Buddy Hackett religion

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

— Buddy Hackett drama

I was born to be funny.

— Buddy Hackett funny

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

— Buddy Hackett age

As a child my familys menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

— Buddy Hackett family

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