Greg Kinnear Quotes

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

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

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

Everybody's family has problems.

I like complicated characters.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I have a very well organized closet.

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

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

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.

'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.

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

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

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.

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

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

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.

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

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

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.

If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.

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

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

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

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.

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.

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.

'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.