GEORGE GAYNES

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!

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

It should be easier to play opposite my wife.

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.

It's nice to be in demand.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

It should be easier to play opposite my wife.

It's nice to be in demand.

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.