America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan – Go for the Gold.
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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The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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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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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 do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
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She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
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When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I’m breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That’s what gives me the strength to break the club.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England
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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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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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There’s a very apt saying in show business: “If you don’t go over budget in Paris, you’re either very rich or very sick. “
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
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Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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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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I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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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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I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
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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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