Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
BOB HOPEEighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
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The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
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If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you.
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The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor’s age by the rings on her fingers.
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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
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