George Gaynes Quotes

The two things an actor dreads most are children and dogs.

– George Gaynes

I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I – not a hell of a lot of difference.

– George Gaynes

It should be easier to play opposite my wife.

– George Gaynes

It’s nice to be in demand.

– George Gaynes

It depends on the generation and gender. The males usually go for ‘Police Academy,’ and the young women now in their late 20s or so go for ‘Punky Brewster.’ I am recognized quite frequently because they’re still playing that stuff on television!

– George Gaynes

I’m not foreign enough to play foreigners… I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don’t know quite where to put me.

– George Gaynes

I was an acting opera singer, and that’s one of the reasons I left opera.

– George Gaynes

My parents separated soon after I was born, so I left Helsinki when I was a year old. My mother took me to Paris and then other places throughout Western Europe.

– George Gaynes

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.

– George Gaynes

To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the kind of hopeless quality, that ‘everything goes wrong’ kind of thing.

– George Gaynes