George Gaynes Quotes

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

Actor's life is very long.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance.

An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.

I'm good with a script.

I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.