At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
BOB HOPEShe spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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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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One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we’ll have her forever.
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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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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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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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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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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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