Ronnie Burns: Ronnie Burns

Quotes 

• Ronnie Burns : I don't want to do comedy, I wanna take a crack at serious drama.

  Gracie Allen : But Ronnie, we've done comedy all our lives and we're proud of what we've done, and we thought you were too. Well, all our lives we've hoped and dreamed that someday you'd join us. Well, this comes as quite a shock. I - I don't know what to say.

  Ronnie Burns : Dad, did you hear that? What a reading, what feeling, what emotion! What a dramatic actress she might have been if you hadn't put her in comedy.

  Gracie Allen : Really, Ronnie?

  Ronnie Burns : Sure, mother!

  Gracie Allen : Oh, George Burns, you ought to be ashamed of yourself! You've wrecked my career!

• George Burns : Ronnie, you don't have to knock yourself out. If you want to get into showbusiness and you want a little experience, you can come on our television show.

  Ronnie Burns : But you - you do a comedy show.

  George Burns : Well?

  Ronnie Burns : If I got laughs, all my time at the Pasadena Playhouse would be wasted. I could never face those kids again!

  George Burns : Um... laughs are no good?

  Ronnie Burns : I know it's hard for you to understand, Dad, but I want to be something worthwhile. I don't want comedy. Laughs have ruined a lot of actors - look what it's done to you!

  [George gets up and studies himself in the mirror] 

  George Burns : Solid gold collarpin, silk tie, monogrammed shirts, never out of cigars. If you're gonna be ruined, that's the only way!