Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career spanning nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in over 70 films and shorts, including a series of "Road" movies also starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards 19 times, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles and was the author of fourteen books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" is widely regarded...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 May 1903
CityLondon, England
CountryUnited States of America
Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.
Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.
In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.
I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.
If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.
I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.
The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.
I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.
If they liked you, they didn't applaud -- they let you live.
The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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.
Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.
I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.