Greg Kinnear Quotes

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

- Greg Kinnear

Think, I Think, Including, Ford

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

- Greg Kinnear

Color, Flag, Pond, Guests

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.

- Greg Kinnear

American, Year, Two, Senior Year

I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.

- Greg Kinnear

College, Date, Had, Territories

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

- Greg Kinnear

Movie, Tapestry, Largest, Communal

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

- Greg Kinnear

I Remember, Concept, Had, Lebanon

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

- Greg Kinnear

Some, Older Brother, Moved, Lebanon

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

- Greg Kinnear

Clear, Come, Had, Map

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

- Greg Kinnear

Interesting, Find, Stories, Interesting Stories

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

- Greg Kinnear

Role, Maybe, Vortex, Recurring

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

- Greg Kinnear

Happy, Been, Everybody, Report

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

- Greg Kinnear

Blind, Going, Might, Goals

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

- Greg Kinnear

Nature, Going, Maintain, Struggle

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

- Greg Kinnear

City, I Think, Forced, Beirut

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

- Greg Kinnear

Here, Other, Role, Volley

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

- Greg Kinnear

Career, Think, Very, Journalism

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

- Greg Kinnear

Cat, Turn, Lovers, Collectors

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

- Greg Kinnear

Always, Been, Concept, Ruin

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

- Greg Kinnear

Seat, Pick, Partners, Table

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

- Greg Kinnear

Door, Behind, Been, Sweaty

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

- Greg Kinnear

Think, Always, I Think, Explaining

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

- Greg Kinnear

Work, Work Hard, Find, Motivator

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

- Greg Kinnear

Corporation, Big, Person, Corporations

Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.

- Greg Kinnear

Big, Here, Over, Artificially

Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'

- Greg Kinnear

Love, Think, Soup, Bang

I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.

- Greg Kinnear

Deal, Away, Before, Great Deal

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

- Greg Kinnear

Character, Think, Always, Intriguing

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

- Greg Kinnear

Forward, Big, Course, Courtroom

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

- Greg Kinnear

Effort, Find, Role, Concerted Effort

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

- Greg Kinnear

Been, Very, Applied, Los Angeles

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

- Greg Kinnear

Own, About, Justified, Accurately

We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

- Greg Kinnear

More, Individual, May, Accurately

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

- Greg Kinnear

Play, Year, Date, Sophomore

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

- Greg Kinnear

Mexico, Always, Mexico City, Dynamic

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.

- Greg Kinnear

Doing, Soup, TV, NBC

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

- Greg Kinnear

Trust, Game, Always, Guessing

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

- Greg Kinnear

Think, Human Condition, Situations

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

- Greg Kinnear

Feel, Sense, About, Disappoint

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

- Greg Kinnear

Hollywood, Whenever, Real Life

I have a very well organized closet.

- Greg Kinnear

Well, Closet, Very, Organized

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

- Greg Kinnear

Interesting, Tell, Like, Complete

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

- Greg Kinnear

Quiet, Kid, Class Clown, Clown

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

- Greg Kinnear

Sunshine, Small, Movie, Miss

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

- Greg Kinnear

Life, Nothing, Perpetually, Elements

My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.

- Greg Kinnear

Uncle, Brothers, Dad, Suddenly

I like complicated characters.

- Greg Kinnear

Like, Characters, Complicated

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

- Greg Kinnear

Big, Here, About, Broad

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

- Greg Kinnear

Admire, Movie, Lot, Movie Stars

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

- Greg Kinnear

Career, Never, Been, Fire

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

- Greg Kinnear

Rain, Movies, Use, Irony

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

- Greg Kinnear

Harmony, Think, Storytelling, Attracted

I like the classics!

- Greg Kinnear

Like, Classics

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

- Greg Kinnear

Interesting, Person, Sure, Ultimately

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

- Greg Kinnear

Dark, Looks, Always, Suit

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

- Greg Kinnear

Me, Know, Well, Image

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