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.
BOB HOPELots of travel, away from home.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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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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Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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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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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn’t know they had a caddie division.
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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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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It’s going to get us out of the house after dark!
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The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
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The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
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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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It’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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