Greg Kinnear Quotes
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Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.
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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.
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The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
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There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.
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The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.
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I've never felt like my career has been on fire.
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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.
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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.
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Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
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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.
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It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
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I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
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My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'
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I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.
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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. It just seems like that element of trying to move forward while things are breaking down... Obviously, it's always been the backdrop for a lot of great literature and great cinematic characters, but aside from that, I'm just drawn to it because that feels honest to me.
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'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.
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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."
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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.
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A man always looks good in a dark suit.
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Well, I don't know what image people have of me.
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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.
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You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
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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!
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I like complicated characters.
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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.
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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.
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