Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by George Gaynes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician George Gaynes.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

George Gaynes was a Finnish-born American singer, actor, and voice artist. Born to Dutch and Russian-Finnish parents in the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire, he served in the Royal Netherlands Navy during World War II, and subsequently emigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen and began his acting career on Broadway.

American - Musician | May 3, 1917 - February 15, 2016

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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

It should be easier to play opposite my wife.

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

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

It's nice to be in demand.

George Gaynes

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

George Gaynes

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

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 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