The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
BOB HOPEMilton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
More Bob Hope Quotes
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There’s a very apt saying in show business: “If you don’t go over budget in Paris, you’re either very rich or very sick. “
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I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.
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When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I’m breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That’s what gives me the strength to break the club.
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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
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I’d give up golf if I didn’t have so many sweaters.
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn’t know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He’s always had an agent for that.
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At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
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Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
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I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
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I can’t give up Golf, I’ve got too many sweaters.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
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I just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there.
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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor’s age by the rings on her fingers.
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
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