Quote

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

George Burns

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Street Artist
Television Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
Stink
Collapse
Talent
Evil
Place
Vaudeville

More quotes by George Burns

Image
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns
Image
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
Image
When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.
George Burns
Image
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
Image
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.
George Burns
Image
At my age flowers scare me.
George Burns
Image
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.
George Burns
Image
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Image
In those days the best painkiller was ice it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
George Burns
Image
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
Image
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
Image
How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
George Burns
Image
Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
George Burns
Image
I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better.
George Burns
Image
I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.
George Burns
Image
I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
George Burns
Image
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
George Burns
Image
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.
George Burns
Image
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
George Burns
Image
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
George Burns