Buddy Hackett Quotes

With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle changes and adjustments, because what's in front of you is a living, breathing audience.

I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material. I'm not a huge fan of repeating jokes, and I don't really do any of my old material from old stand-up acts.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I really love live performing!

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

I feel like I've gotten myself comfortable making beats in front of people, so like, if I'm in a big room of people, I'm not like, nervous. I wanna be able to make beats on the spot.

Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.

I don't prepare for a live show.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

When young comedians ask me for advice that's the one thing I always say is if they're improvisers I'm like do improv, don't make that your sole thing. And at the end of the day when you do your best work you also just kinda, by definition flush it down the toilet and never do it again.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.