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If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

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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
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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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I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.
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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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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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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.'
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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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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.
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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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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.
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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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She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
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Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me. On the other hand, the fact that I have an unlisted phone number and move a lot might have something to do with it.
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I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
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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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I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
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