I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
BOB HOPECelebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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Television is the box they buried entertainment in.
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I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
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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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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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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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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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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’ve always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It’s an island and the audience can’t run very far.
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That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
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In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you.
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I can’t give up Golf, I’ve got too many sweaters.
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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 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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