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.
George BurnsThere's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
George BurnsI drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
George BurnsMy major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.
George Burns