Quote #5135
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance–waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope
About This Quote
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Interpretation
Hope’s line is a classic example of his self-deprecating, domestic humor: it turns a mundane childhood inconvenience into an origin story for a glamorous skill. The joke hinges on incongruity—“learning to dance” is reframed not as training or talent but as fidgeting in a hallway while waiting for a shared bathroom. It also evokes the crowded, working-class family life Hope often referenced, using exaggeration (“six brothers”) to heighten the comic pressure. The quip suggests that personality and performance can be forged out of everyday constraints, and it gently mocks the tendency to romanticize one’s beginnings.




