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Greg Kinnear Quotes

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

– Greg Kinnear

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

– Greg Kinnear

Everybody’s family has problems.

– Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

– Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

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

– Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

– Greg Kinnear

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