George Gaynes Quotes

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.

I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.

Do you think your mother and I should have liv’d comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?

I said to George, 'Why don't you manage me?' He looked at me, a little bit surprised. Then he replied, 'Sure, Sass, I'll manage you, but it would be even better if we managed each other.' The next morning, we got our marriage license at the court.

I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.

The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

I have a very intense marriage.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.