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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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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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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The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.
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I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.
