I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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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The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.
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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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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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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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The home videos aren’t as good, but they are seeming to get better.
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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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.
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
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The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn’t got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
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