Buddy Hackett Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“I was born to be funny.”

“I'm an actor. I want to do drama.”

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