George Gaynes Quotes
For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.
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I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Thus he had a double thought: the one by which he acted as king, the other by which he recognized his true state, and that it was accident alone that had placed him in his present condition.
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Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.
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To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.
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So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
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A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.
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The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
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For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.
