Bob Hope
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Biography
Lester Townes "Bob" Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54, including a series of seven Road to ... musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as his partner.
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."
"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."
"A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?"
"Thanks to our brave allies: you gallant Russian bear, you British everywhere."
"I was on the way to my hotel, and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction."
"I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!"
"You mean like Democrats?"
"Bob Hope will go to the opening of a phone booth in a gas station in Anaheim, providing they have a camera there and three people. He'll go to the opening of a market to receive an award. He'd get an award from Thom McCan for wearing their shoes. It's pathetic. It's a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He's constantly filling himself up. He's like a junkie – an applause junkie. What happens to those people when they can't get up and do their shtick, God only knows. Bob Hope, Christ, instead of growing old gracefully or doing something with his money, be helpful, all he does is he has an anniversary with the President looking on. It's sad. He gets on an airplane every two minutes always going someplace. It didn't bother him at all to work the Vietnam War. Oh, he took that in his stride. He did his World War II and Korean War act. "Our boys" and all that. He’s a pathetic guy."
"For years, as I've said, Bob has worked hard for our family's sake to cut our traveling to a minimum. But there are some 300,000 miles he and I shared that we wouldn't take back for anything. I mean the world-famous Bob Hope Holiday Tours to the armed forces stationed in remote outposts overseas, made on behalf of the U.S.O. "Go with us one time, Anita, and it will get into your blood," Bob Hope suggested in 1960, the first year Bob and I were married. "You'll never play to a greater audience.""
"In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did."
"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap."
"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
"I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money."
"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."
"If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it."
"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."
"I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money."
"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
"I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money."
"I have too much money invested in sweaters."
"The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast."
"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap."
"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."