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
dirty ifs
If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.
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.
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.
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.
laughing people trying
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.
fall good-day golf
I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.
cocky ninety-nine voice
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.