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Film Quotes by Bob Hope

196 quotes
My Favorite Brunette
Year: 1947

Director:
Elliott Nugent
State Trooper: Keep moving! You got a long drive back to town!
Ronnie Jackson: Yeah, well, let me tell YOU something!
State Trooper: What?
Ronnie Jackson: I like long drives.
-- Bob Hope (as Ronnie Jackson) in My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Off Limits
Year: 1953

Director:
George Marshall
Karl Danzig: Headquarters, federal building.
Wally Hogan: Yes, Lieutenant.
Karl Danzig: CAPTAIN now, Hogan.
Wally Hogan: Captain?
[aside]
Wally Hogan: Who's his agent?
-- Bob Hope (as Wally Hogan) in Off Limits (1953)
The Road to Hong Kong
Year: 1962

Director:
Norman Panama
Leader of the 3rd Echelon: In that rocket, we're about to send two animals around the moon and if we succeed, we shall next send two men. And from the moon, that point of impenetrable power, I shall go before the United Nations and demand that they accede to our total and absolute control.
Chester Babcock: [to Harry] I think he rolls his own.
-- Bob Hope (as Chester Babcock) in The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
The Cat and the Canary
Year: 1939

Director:
Elliott Nugent
Fred Blythe: I could use a drink.
Wally Campbell: Yeah, I could too. Might as well be a live stiff as a dead stiff.
-- Bob Hope (as Wally Campbell) in The Cat and the Canary (1939)
The Ghost Breakers
Year: 1940

Director:
George Marshall
Parada: Are you the one advising Miss Carter to sell the castle?
Larry Lawrence: No, my advice is keep the castle and sell the ghosts.
Parada: I myself have heard of only one ghost: the spirit of Don Santiago.
Larry Lawrence: Tell me, does he appear nightly or just Sundays and Holidays?
-- Bob Hope (as Larry Lawrence) in The Ghost Breakers (1940)
That Certain Feeling
Year: 1956

Director:
Melvin Frank*Norman Panama
Joe Wickes: Say, how'd you finish the episode?
Francis X. Dignan: Snips kicks Runty, robs a liquor store, shoves his grandmother down the stairs, sets fire to the orphanage and shoots himself in the head. He's been under a strain.
The Iron Petticoat
Year: 1956

Director:
Ralph Thomas
Colonel Tarbell: It doesn't hurt to tantalize em'.
Major Chuck Lockwood: Tantalize an heiress? That's like not opening your parachute!
-- Bob Hope (as Major Charles "Chuck" Lockwood) in The Iron Petticoat (1956)
The Iron Petticoat
Year: 1956

Director:
Ralph Thomas
Colonel Tarbell: What do you think of her?
Major Chuck Lockwood: Well, women in uniform bother me. I don't know whether to kiss em' or salute em'!
-- Bob Hope (as Major Charles "Chuck" Lockwood) in The Iron Petticoat (1956)
My Favorite Spy
Year: 1951

Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
Lily Dalbray: The closer I get to death the more I realize that I love you.
Peanuts White: The closer I get to death the more I realize I love me, too.
-- Bob Hope (as Peanuts White / Eric Augustine) in My Favorite Spy (1951)
My Favorite Brunette
Year: 1947

Director:
Elliott Nugent
Carlotta Montay: Are you a man who's afraid of danger?
Ronnie Jackson: No, you can get as close as you like.
-- Bob Hope (as Ronnie Jackson) in My Favorite Brunette (1947)