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 HOPEThe help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
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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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I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
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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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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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