Greg Kinnear Quotes

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.
Greg Kinnear

Nature, Struggle, Human

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

Happy, Wanted, Earth

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
Greg Kinnear

Trust, Game, Filmmaking

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
Greg Kinnear

Movies, Rain, Real

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

Peace, Time, Short

A man always looks good in a dark suit.
Greg Kinnear

Good, Dark, Looks

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

Good, Movies, Sense

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.
Greg Kinnear

Lovers, Turn, Cat

Everybody's family has problems.
Greg Kinnear

Family, Problems, Everybody

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
Greg Kinnear

Good, Hard, Find

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

Life, Money, Movies

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

Life, Funny, Humor

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

Great, Crazy, Character

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

Stars, Movie, Consider

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

Career, Different, Two

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

Work, Great, Fear

I have a very well organized closet.
Greg Kinnear

Closet, Organized

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.
Greg Kinnear

Interested, Concept, Ruin

I like complicated characters.
Greg Kinnear

I like the classics!
Greg Kinnear

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

Find, Try, Effort

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

Done, Find, Enough

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

Moving, Parents, Thinking

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

School, Football, Two

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

Time, Why, Training

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 17, 1963

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