George Burns Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  George Burns

  Play, Ideas, Plot

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.

  George Burns

  Funny, Travel, Children

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• It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

  George Burns

  Age, Aging

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• When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.

  George Burns

  Party, Scotch, Rocks

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sports, Humorous

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• I would read Playboy more often, but my glasses keep steaming up.

  George Burns

  Witty, Glasses, Playboy

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• Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.

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  Funny, Husband, Boys

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

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  Funny, Humorous, Paris

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

  George Burns

  Drinking, Good Woman, Cuban Cigars

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• 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.

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  Once Upon A Time, Today, Actresses

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• I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

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  Fall, Age, Might

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• If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• 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

  Art, Keys, Want

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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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  Coffee, Hands, Drink

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

  George Burns

  Lunch, Advice, Dresses

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• Say Goodnight Gracie.

  George Burns

  Saying Goodnight

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

  George Burns

  I Like You, Years, Old Woman

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• 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.

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  Years, Waiting, Trying

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• If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Actors

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• If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

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  Sleep, Firsts, Cigar

  "CNN Larry King Live", July 4, 2003.

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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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  Motivational, Something You Love, Ifs

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• Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

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  Wise, Men, Talking

  George Burns (1985). “Dr. Burns' prescription for happiness”, Perigee

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• Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!

  George Burns

  Sex, Fun, Lunch

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• 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.

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  Believe, Dying, Done

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