Top 98 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
Various
#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. 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
#6. 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.
Greg Kinnear
#7. The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
Greg Kinnear
#8. 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."
Greg Kinnear
#9. If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.
Rory Kinnear
#10. Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
Greg Kinnear
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.
Greg Kinnear
#15. It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
Greg Kinnear
#16. Well, I don't know what image people have of me.
Greg Kinnear
#17. I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.
Rory Kinnear
#18. The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
Greg Kinnear
#19. The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.
Rory Kinnear
#20. I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.
Rory Kinnear
#21. 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
#22. The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age.
Rory Kinnear
#23. I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.
Greg Kinnear
#24. If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.
Joe Kinnear
#25. Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
Rory Kinnear
#26. I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.
Greg Kinnear
#27. When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.
Rory Kinnear
#28. I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.
Rory Kinnear
#29. The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.
Greg Kinnear
#30. It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.
Joe Kinnear
#31. Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
Greg Kinnear
#32. The nice thing about doing a weekly record is you're rehearsing all week and working on getting the script better. Come Friday, when it's time to actually film it, you feel like you've done most of the work!
Rory Kinnear
#33. I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.
Joe Kinnear
#34. When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
Rory Kinnear
#35. I've never felt like my career has been on fire.
Greg Kinnear
#36. I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.
Rory Kinnear
#37. I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.
Rory Kinnear
#39. I'm not a snob ... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor.
Rory Kinnear
#40. 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.
Greg Kinnear
#41. It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.
Rory Kinnear
#42. If you're working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children.
Rory Kinnear
#43. Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
Greg Kinnear
#44. If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.
Rory Kinnear
#46. Ride with the hands of a lady, the trust of a child, the posture of a king and the manners of a gentleman.
Annette Kinnear
#47. I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
Greg Kinnear
#48. 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
#49. I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.
Greg Kinnear
#50. 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
#51. You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
Greg Kinnear
#52. We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.
Joe Kinnear
#53. I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.
Rory Kinnear
#55. 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
#56. Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.
Rory Kinnear
#57. When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.
Rory Kinnear
#58. Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.
Rory Kinnear
#59. 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.
Greg Kinnear
#60. 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
#61. I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!
Greg Kinnear
#62. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.
Rory Kinnear
#63. 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
#64. '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.
Greg Kinnear
#65. Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.
Greg Kinnear
#66. I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.
Rory Kinnear
#67. 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
#68. My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.
Greg Kinnear
#69. 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
#70. I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.
Greg Kinnear
#71. Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
Greg Kinnear
#72. 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
#73. Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.
Greg Kinnear
#75. However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.
Rory Kinnear
#76. I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.
Greg Kinnear
#77. Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.
Rory Kinnear
#78. 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.
Greg Kinnear
#79. Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.
Rory Kinnear
#81. Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.
Rory Kinnear
#82. 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.
Greg Kinnear
#83. I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.
Rory Kinnear
#84. 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
#85. '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.
Greg Kinnear
#86. I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.
Rory Kinnear
#87. 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
#88. 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.
Greg Kinnear
#89. If I have to move on from Newcastle, hopefully it will be to somewhere else
Joe Kinnear
#90. For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.
Rory Kinnear
#91. The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.
Joe Kinnear
#92. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.
Rory Kinnear
#98. I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.
Greg Kinnear
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