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.
BOB HOPEI’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
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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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To give you an idea of how fast we travelled – we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.
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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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Everybody is afraid they won’t have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.
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The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he’s not running for anything.
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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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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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
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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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Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn’t get elected, he’d go back to acting.
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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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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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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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Golf is a funny game. It’s done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I’m the healthiest idiot in the world.
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