Greg Kinnear quotes

Greg Kinnear is an American actor and television personality, renowned for his versatility in both comedy and drama. His breakthrough came with the film "As Good as It Gets," for which he earned an Academy Award nomination. He has appeared in numerous popular movies and television shows, earning critical acclaim for his performances. Here are 53 of his quotes:

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. (Greg Kinnear)
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. View quote
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The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. View quote
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The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. View quote
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Everybody's family has problems. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' (Greg Kinnear)
Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. View quote
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A man always looks good in a dark suit. View quote
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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. View quote
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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! View quote
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Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
Well, I don't know what image people have of me. View quote
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I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Occupation: American Actor
Born: June 17, 1963
Quotes count: 53