Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackettwas an American comedian and actor. His best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man, Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug, and Scuttle in The Little Mermaid...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 August 1924
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking catholic comedian
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
anger angry-at-someone dancing
Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?
hate people poison
There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
growing-up boys years
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.
dirty ifs
If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.
mother two choices
The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it
wife tuesday want
My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"
gold would-be cost
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.
fun golf strange-places
Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
laughing people like-you
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.
dance dancing guy
Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.
laughter people laughing
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.
night half hours
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.
golf balls swamps
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.