Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
GEORGE BURNSI’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.
More George Burns Quotes
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
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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’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
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Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
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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.
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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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The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
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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.
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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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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
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