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 have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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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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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
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I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.
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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn’t know they had a caddie division.
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A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
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I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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The home videos aren’t as good, but they are seeming to get better.
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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