Buddy Hackett movie quotes

“My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
Buddy Hackett

“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.”
Buddy Hackett

“There's no rush, we just wanna get there in a hurry!”
Buddy Hackett - Benjy Benjamin

“- Tyler Fitzgerald: Anybody can fly plane, now here: I'll check you out. Put your little hands on the wheel there. Now put your feet on the rudder. There. Who says this ol' boy can't fly this ol' plane? Now I'm gonna make us some old fashioneds the old-fashioned way, the way dear old Dad used to!
- Benjy Benjamin: What if something happens?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jim Backus - Tyler Fitzgerald
Buddy Hackett - Benjy Benjamin

“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

“I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.”
Buddy Hackett

“What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. ”
Buddy Hackett

“Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.”
Buddy Hackett

“- Ding Bell: Benji, I tell you, he said the man who's flying should be talking on this thing.
- Benjy Benjamin: What, am I supposed to do everything? You want me to fly the airplane, you want me to work the radio, what are you gonna... What are you, the hostess?”
Mickey Rooney - Ding Bell
Buddy Hackett - Benjy Benjamin

“It's a dinglehopper. Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out. See? Just a little twirl here and a yank there and voila. You've got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over.”
Buddy Hackett - Scuttle

“- Sebastian: Are you sure about this?
- Scuttle: Have I ever been wrong? I mean when it's important!”
Samuel E. Wright - Sebastian
Buddy Hackett - Scuttle

“You see the snarfblatt dates back to pre-hysterical times when humans would sit around and stare at each other all day... got very boring. So they invented this snarfblatt to make fine music, allow me!”

Buddy Hackett - Scuttle

“We're out to discover!”
Buddy Hackett - Scuttle

“Not boys' bands? Well, ain't no call for a boys' band in this town. Anything these Iowa people don't have already, they do without.”
Buddy Hackett - Marcellus Washburn

“- Marcellus Washburn: I heard you was in steam automobiles.
- Harold Hill: I was... till someone actually 'invented' one!”
Buddy Hackett - Marcellus Washburn
Robert Preston - Harold Hill