George Burns Quotes
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
At my age flowers scare me.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
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.
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.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
