Greg Kinnear quotes - page 2

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. (Greg Kinnear)

I have a very well organized closet.

Greg Kinnear

I like complicated characters.

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

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

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

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

Greg Kinnear

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

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

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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I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. (Greg Kinnear)

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

Greg Kinnear

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

Greg Kinnear

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

Greg Kinnear

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

Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Greg Kinnear

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

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

Greg Kinnear

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

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Greg Kinnear

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: June 17, 1963
Quotes count: 53