"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."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Stand-up comedians from the United StatesSingers from the United StatesPeople from LondonDancers from the United StatesActors from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Marlon Brando, Playboy (January 1979); reproduced in The Playboy Interview (1981) edited by G. Barry Golson, p. 629
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Hope
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Bob Hope
Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), best known as Bob Hope, was a British-American entertainer, having appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, films and in army concerts.
8 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Bob Hope →
Related Quotes
"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 s…"
"You mean like Democrats?"
"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 s…"
"No doubt the funniest exploit I was involved in was dropping leaflets on the Bob Hope Christmas show at Cu Chi in 196…"
"In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walke…"
"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"
"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"
"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"