"Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian.……" — George Burns
"Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist."
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108 Quotes by George Burns
George Burns has 108 quotes on this site.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at…
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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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…
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it…
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
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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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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget…
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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…
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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm…
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The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
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Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley…
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to…
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I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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