It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
BOB HOPEWe’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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 do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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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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She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
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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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I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
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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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I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
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Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
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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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The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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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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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes.
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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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I can’t give up Golf, I’ve got too many sweaters.
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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
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I’ve got to watch myself these days. It’s too exciting watching anyone else.
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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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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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