Greg Kinnear Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Greg Kinnear:
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.
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It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
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I've never felt like my career has been on fire.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
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I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.
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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.
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There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.
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I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
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Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
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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.
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I have a very well organized closet.
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You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
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Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.
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I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.
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Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.
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A man always looks good in a dark suit.
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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.
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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.
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Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
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Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.
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Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
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Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
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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.
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I like the classics!
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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.
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The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
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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.
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I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!
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I like complicated characters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.
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'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.
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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!
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Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.
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Well, I don't know what image people have of me.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Everybody's family has problems.
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I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.
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I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.
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Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'
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I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.
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