I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
BOB HOPEThe 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
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The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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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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It’s a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you’ll be able to watch it all on TV.
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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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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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Eighty 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.
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I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
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I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.
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I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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