American - Comedian | August 31, 1924 - June 30, 2003
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
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A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
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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.
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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.
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I'm an actor. I want to do drama.
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I was born to be funny.
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A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
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