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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
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In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
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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.
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I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
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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.
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Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
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If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
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I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
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In those days the best painkiller was ice it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
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I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
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I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.
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Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
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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.
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I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.
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At my age flowers scare me.
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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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