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Date of Birth
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20-January-1896
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Place of Birth
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New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Nathan Birnbaum, Nattie, George N. Burns, Nattie Birnbaum, Burns, Naftaly Birnbaum, Naftaly (Nathan) Birnbaum
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Profession
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Comedian, Actor, Television Producer, Radio personality, Writer
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Quotes
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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.
- If 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.
- It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
- I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
- It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
- Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
- Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
- Life's but a day at most.
- How can I die? I'm booked.
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- Be quick to learn and wise to know.
- You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
- Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor and writer.
He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century.
At the age of 79, Burns' career was resurrected as an amiable, beloved and unusually active old comedian in the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He continued to work until shortly before his death, in 1996, at the age of 100.
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