A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
BOB HOPEGolf is a funny game. It’s done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I’m the healthiest idiot in the world.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
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A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
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Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.
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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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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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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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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 can’t give up Golf, I’ve got too many sweaters.
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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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Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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Television. That’s where movies go when they die.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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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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One 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!
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I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
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Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
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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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