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All Quotes by author - George Gaynes

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" It should be easier to play opposite my wife. "

" It's nice to be in demand. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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