*~* Quotes From and About Bob Hope *~* Hey,Hey,Paula

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money.

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

I've enjoyed 60 memorable years with NBC. Sixty years ... I started before the peacock, and he wound up taking my parking space!

I'd carry a camel a mile to hear 10 people laugh.

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One of the best timers of comedy I've ever seen.

-- Charlie Chaplin

It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard and be so effective. There's a man. There really is a man.

-- John Steinbeck

[He is] America's most prized ambassador of good will throughout the world.

-- President John F. Kennedy

Bob Hope can walk out onstage, and people are laughing before he gets there.

-- Johnny Carson

He can handle himself as well in a hospital full of suffering men as before a rough audience of 10,000 war-coarsened ones.

-- Ernie Pyle, war correspondent

In his prime, he was unbeatable, and Bob Hope pictures were as good as any being made in Hollywood.

-- film historian Leonard Maltin

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