I didn’t know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.
He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.
You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can’t spread peanut butter on the jelly.
In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.
Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.
We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
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.
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn’t teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn’t had a family myself, I probably never would’ve done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
Do you know that I was the anchor on the ‘CBS Morning Show?’ And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
It’s more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I’m one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
Every morning I have something to do, I’m better off. It’s bad to get up and not have something to do.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.
I don’t think we’ve got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don’t think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can’t.
Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there’s a great feeling of: ‘Hey, I’m free as a bird.’
I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents’ home to a marriage.