Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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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If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
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I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
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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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Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.
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One of our stock lines used to be “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Bing, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me.” And that’s the way we go through life – doing nothing for each other!
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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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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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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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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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
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Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
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Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome – the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
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I don’t bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard … I sell.
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I’ve got to watch myself these days. It’s too exciting watching anyone else.
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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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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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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 have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?
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We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
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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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I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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