Top 100 Quotes About Bob Hope
#2. I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.
Gerald R. Ford
#3. Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
Drake Bell
#4. In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.
Clive James
#5. I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
Tony Randall
#6. Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.
John Boehner
#7. You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies.
Steve Sabol
#8. Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
Rich Little
#9. Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor ... help us keep our balance.
Hattie McDaniel
#10. I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"
Tony Bennett
#11. It's an honor to walk in the footsteps of a legend. As host I intend to honor the tradition of The Bob Hope Classic and have a great time blazing a new path.
George Lopez
#13. I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.
Marlo Thomas
#14. I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic ... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards ... he hardly said two words to me all day.
Jane Badler
#15. I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.
Mort Sahl
#16. I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.
Dolly Parton
#17. My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.
Ronald Reagan
#18. Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all
the public and private Hope.
Tom Brokaw
#19. I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.
Dolly Parton
#20. The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.
Dick Cavett
#21. Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
Mike Love
#22. On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
James Wolcott
#23. I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
Shirley Eaton
#24. Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib.
Don Rickles
#25. Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.
Jimmy Demaret
#26. I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.
Milton Berle
#27. Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.
Eddie Murphy
#28. Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
Dick Van Dyke
#29. I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies.
Scott Aukerman
#30. The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.
Bob Hope
#31. The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.
Bob Hope
#32. I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Bob Hope
#33. Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
Bob Hope
#34. Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.
Bob Hope
#35. I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
Bob Hope
#36. I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
Bob Goff
#37. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
#38. You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
Bob Hope
#39. Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Bob Riley
#40. As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob ... if you can see it, it's obsolete."
Bob Hope
#41. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
#42. Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.
Bob Hope
#43. A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope
#44. Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.
Bob Hope
#45. I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.
Bob Galvin
#46. people who throw kisses are helplessly lazy
Bob Hope
#47. The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.
Bob Hope
#48. I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned how to dance- waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope
#49. I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
Bob Hope
#50. I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.
Bob Hope
#51. Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.
Bob Hope
#52. There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "
Bob Hope
#53. When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope
#54. Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.
Bob Colacello
#55. I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
Bob Brown
#56. A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
Bob Hope
#57. You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.
Bob Hope
#58. I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bob Hope
#59. I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.
Bob Hope
#60. My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.
Bob Hope
#61. Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
Bob Hope
#62. As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.
Bob Hope
#63. I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
Bob Hope
#64. Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
Bob Hope
#65. I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
Bob Hope
#66. The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
Bob Hope
#67. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Bob Hope
#68. Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Bob Hope
#69. The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent's handshake.
Bob Hope
#70. Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.
Bob Paisley
#71. Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
Bob Hope
#72. I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
Bob Hope
#73. All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.
Bob Hope
#74. There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
Bob Hope
#75. She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
Bob Hope
#76. I made so many B pictures I began to get fan mail from hornets...and for me that was an improvement.
Bob Hope
#77. And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
Bob Dylan
#78. Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.
Bob Hope
#79. I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
Bob Hope
#80. I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope
#81. I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
Bob Hope
#82. 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.
Bob Hope
#83. Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
Bob Hope
#84. It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
Bob Hope
#85. I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.
Bob Hope
#86. I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
Bob Hope
#87. Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
Bob Goff
#88. We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.
Bob Hope
#89. The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
Bob Hope
#90. I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.
Bob Hope
#91. Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. 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!
Bob Hope
#92. I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.
Bob Hope
#93. Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.
Bob Hope
#94. The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
Bob Hope
#95. People who blow kisses are hoplessly lazy.
Bob Hope
#96. Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
Bob Hope
#97. Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself
the Bank of America.
Bob Hope
#98. The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he's not running for anything.
Bob Hope
#99. And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. 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.
Bob Hope
#100. I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.
Jay Watson
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