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When I wasn't working, I put ...

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

George Burns 179 quotes

Bridge is a game that separat...

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.

George Burns 179 quotes

I drink coffee with my right ...

I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

George Burns 179 quotes

I'd rather be a flop at show ...

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

George Burns 179 quotes

Say Goodnight Gracie. ...

Say Goodnight Gracie.

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I'm onstage for an hour.I do ...

I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

George Burns 179 quotes

What actresses do today when ...

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

George Burns 179 quotes

Much later in life, though, G...

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

George Burns 179 quotes

Age to me means nothing. I ca...

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.

George Burns 179 quotes

People are always asking me h...

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

George Burns 179 quotes

I like women to be attracted ...

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.

George Burns 179 quotes

Being an actor is easy, just ...

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.

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I'd say that about 82 percent...

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

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If I paid ten dollars for a c...

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

George Burns 179 quotes

Sex can be fun after eighty, ...

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!

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When we played the back end o...

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

George Burns 179 quotes

When I die I intend to take m...

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

George Burns 179 quotes

Dress simply. If you wear a d...

Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

George Burns 179 quotes

In show business the key word...

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

George Burns 179 quotes

Money is the root of all evil...

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....