George Burns Quotes

George Burns was an American comedian, actor, singer, and writer. He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century. He and his wife, Gracie Allen, appeared on radio, television, and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen.

At age 79, Burns had a sudden career revival as an amiable, beloved and unusually active comedy elder statesman in the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Burns, who became a centenarian in 1996, continued to work until just weeks before his death of cardiac arrest at his home in Beverly Hills. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. January 1896 – 9. March 1996
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Famous George Burns Quotes

“Happiness is having a loving, close knit family in another city.”

As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 251

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

Life magazine (December 1979) http://books.google.com/books?id=w5-GR-qtgXsC&pg=PA117&dq=%22Too+bad+that+all+the+people+who+know+how+to+run+the+country+are+busy+driving+taxicabs+and+cutting+hair.%22&sig=uj07kFeO7wja3cpTdX31dWR_pjs

George Burns Quotes

“Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.”

Variant: Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)

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

Undated clip played on CNN Larry King Live (4 July 2003)

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