I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
BOB HOPEOne 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!
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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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.
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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he’s not running for anything.
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We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.
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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.
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The home videos aren’t as good, but they are seeming to get better.
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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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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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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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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Please don’t stand up on my account.
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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