I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
BOB HOPEYou could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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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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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 get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it’s silly to let the game get to you.
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
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I led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
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Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
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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.
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My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.
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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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I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, “Don’t worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it’s obsolete.”
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
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Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.
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