Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
BOB HOPETiming is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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It’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
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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 only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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I led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
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She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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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 ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
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YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
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I don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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I’ve got to watch myself these days. It’s too exciting watching anyone else.
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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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