Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
GEORGE BURNSToo bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
GEORGE BURNSI look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNSNice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
GEORGE BURNSToo bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
GEORGE BURNSI can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.
GEORGE BURNSIt takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
GEORGE BURNSEverything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
GEORGE BURNSHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
GEORGE BURNSHappiness? 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.
GEORGE BURNSHow can I die? I’m booked.
GEORGE BURNSI would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNSActing is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
GEORGE BURNSIf 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.
GEORGE BURNSSex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNSYou know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.
GEORGE BURNSIt’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNS