I don’t know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
BOB HOPEI’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
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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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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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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes.
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window.
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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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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Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
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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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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.
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I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
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