255 Quotes by George Burns

This is all so exciting I’ve decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.

There’s an old saying, ‘Life begins at forty.’ That’s silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don’t have to.

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.

Life’s but a day at most.

The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.

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.

Fall in love with what you’re going to do for a living. To be able to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day is beyond words. I’d rather be a failure in something I love than be successful in something I hate.

This is the sixth book I’ve written, which isn’t bad for a guy who’s only read two.