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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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More quotes by George Burns
I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.
George Burns
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
George Burns
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
George Burns
It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns
Let me get one thing straight I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh . . . like uh . . . like . . . uh . . . well, I'll think of it later.
George Burns
When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'
George Burns
She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
George Burns
I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
George Burns
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
George Burns
I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
George Burns
How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
George Burns
It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.
George Burns
My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.
George Burns
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns
I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.
George Burns
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.
George Burns
I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.
George Burns
The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
George Burns
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns
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.
George Burns
