When You Talk About George Burns You're

To This Day, To This Very Day, Except For Television, I've Never Had A Writer. Anything I've Ever Done On The Stage, Happened On The Stage And I Developed It From There. It Started Doing Impressions And Jokes - Which I Did Very Poorly. To This Day I Can't Tell A Joke. That Sounds Nuts, But It's True. I Exaggerate It And It Becomes A Joke. Everything I've Ever Done I've Done Out On The Stage And It Became A Performance Over Many Many Years.

I Always Rib People, But Nobody Ever Gives Me A Hard Time. I Don't Know Why. Maybe They're Afraid Of What I Might Say. There's Probably A Lesson In That Somewhere, But I Don't Know What It Is.

I Can Sit All Day In A Comfortable Chair And Watch Ball Games, But I Don't Need A Blanket.

My Father Wasn't Much For Show Business. He Was An Insurance Man - Very Well-liked, Very Warm. He Had A Lot Of Friends.

I Don't Really Tell A Joke Per Se, I Build Up An Attitude And It Becomes A Joke.