Quotes By Greg Kinnear

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

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

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

I like complicated characters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

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.

I have a very well organized closet.

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

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'

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.

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.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

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

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

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

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

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.