The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
BOB HOPEThe 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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I don’t bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard … I sell.
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She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
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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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A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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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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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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Everybody is afraid they won’t have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.
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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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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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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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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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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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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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