"At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to."

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Buddy Hackett

#People Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You need never fear feeling too good about God.”
“The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.”
“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”

Source : "Epigrams" by Martial, III, 42, c. 80 - 104 AD.
“If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.”
“If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?”
“A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.”
“In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.”
“Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.”

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