I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
BOB HOPEI’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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
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You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor’s age by the rings on her fingers.
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To give you an idea of how fast we travelled – we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.
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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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The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent’s handshake.
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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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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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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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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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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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I don’t know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
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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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