Buddy Hackett Quotes

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Violence is not funny.

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. Or make my friends laugh in class. And, I don't know, it's something I just really enjoy doing.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

… thrashing a cannibal

If they are laughing at you, how can they bludgeon you to death?

If someone says, 'I love 'Jessica Jones!'' I just say, 'Thanks, I love you back!'

I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.

I always wanted to be more of a person that people enjoy. Somebody that will make you laugh. I'm talking about just my personality, not necessarily how my music sounds.

One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

Growing up, the one thing I noticed was that everyone seemed to laugh at my jokes wherever I went.

I think if I'm with a friend group, I try to be as funny as possible, and I don't always succeed, obviously.

I learned from Roger Rabbit that if you make people laugh, they'll do anything for you - which is almost true.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.