I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
BOB HOPEI went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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The home videos aren’t as good, but they are seeming to get better.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?
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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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YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
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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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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
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Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn’t know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He’s always had an agent for that.
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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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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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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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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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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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