Buddy Hackett Quotes

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.

Buddy Hackett

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Experience
  • True
  • Emotional

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• Let the path be open to talent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Path
  • Talent
  • Open

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Mean
  • Friendship
  • Outside

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Me
  • Stop

• If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Love
  • Happy

• The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.

  

  Daniel Snyder
  • American
  • Community

• The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Good
  • Society
  • Talent

• Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Country
  • Law
  • Growing

• There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

  

  Jim Davis
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

  

  John Stossel
  • People
  • World
  • Innovation

• 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.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • People
  • Cocky