255 Quotes by George Burns

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    Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.

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    And God said ‘Let there be Satan, so people don’t blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don’t blame everything on Satan.’

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    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.

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

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    When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

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    The Pope’s entrance was stunning. Maybe the Catholics know about miracles, and maybe they know about saints, but they’ve never received enough credit for what they know about show business.

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    I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you’re 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

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    If I had taken my doctor’s advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn’t have lived to go to his funeral.

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