Top 60 Greg Kinnear Quotes
#1. Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.
Miranda Otto
#2. My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy.
Joel McHale
#3. When you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity"
Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop in AS GOOD AS IT GETS
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#4. It's funny, I lived my first 38 years of my life with maybe one or two people ever saying that I looked like Greg Kinnear. As soon as I get into the entertainment industry, now it's 100 percent of people.
Greg Poehler
#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.
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#10. 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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#11. Well, I don't know what image people have of me.
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#12. The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
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#13. 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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#14. I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.
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#15. I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
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#19. Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
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#20. She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."
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#21. The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
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#22. 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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#23. You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
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#24. 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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#25. I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.
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#26. 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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#27. I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
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#28. Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
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#29. The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.
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#30. Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.
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#32. I've never felt like my career has been on fire.
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#33. 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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#35. Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.
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#36. 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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#37. Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
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#38. I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.
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#39. 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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#40. My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.
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#41. 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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#42. Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. Cher's great, she's incredible. She is an enormous, enormous star, who goes anywhere and crowds follow her ... and yet she's a disciplined actress and she's down to Earth and cool. I can't say enough good things about her.
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#49. '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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#50. I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#55. 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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#56. I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.
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#57. 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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#58. 'Little Miss Sunshine' was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. It's usually found in small pockets. But, it ended up getting a real following and worked out pretty well.
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#59. 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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#60. Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.
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