George Burns Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Burns
George Burns Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.
There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.
I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.
Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.
Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.
From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.
None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.