Top 35 Greg Kinnear Quotes

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

I’ve always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

Everybody’s family has problems.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

Well, I don’t know what image people have of me.

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.

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

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

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.

I’ve never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

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.

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.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Talking about corporations – they’re so big. There’s not a person at a corporation.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

The irony is that you can’t use real rain to make movies.

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.

There’s no harmony in most people in a way, and I’m attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.