Greg Kinnear Quotes

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

'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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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

I like the classics! ~ Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? ~ Greg Kinnear

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." ~ Greg Kinnear

My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy. ~ Joel McHale

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. ~ Greg Kinnear

I have a very well organized closet. ~ Greg Kinnear

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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

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

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all. ~ Greg Kinnear

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

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

When you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity"

Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop in AS GOOD AS IT GETS ~ Various

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

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

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

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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. ~ Greg Kinnear

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

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester. ~ Greg Kinnear

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes. ~ Greg Lake

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you. ~ Greg Norman

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued. ~ Greg Rusedski

Watching Tommy perform this scene, I wondered what his psychologist or psychiatrist had made of him. I tried to image Tommy's mind from the inside out. I saw burning forests, blind alleys, volcanoes in the desert, city streets that plunged into the ocean, barricades everywhere, and all of it lit in the deep-cherry light of emergency. ~ Greg Sestero

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny. ~ Greg Giraldo

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time. ~ Greg Graffin

Stars I understand. They shed light and give life. It is the emptiness between that haunts me. ~ Greg Bear

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too. ~ Greg Maddux

Eternity begins now. ~ Greg Farshtey

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality. ~ Greg Gutfeld

The ancient Greeks had two words for time. The first was chronos. The second was kairos. The ~ Greg McKeown

I live in east London, but I'm not cool. ~ Greg McHugh

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds. ~ Greg Poehler

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions. ~ Greg Graffin

In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. ~ Greg Plitt

Compare Russell Brand with Mark Levin. My politics align more with Levin, but Brand still makes me giggle. And I hate his politics. He's a piece of hairy dog shit, but he's quick-witted - and that makes him a persuasive piece of hairy dog shit. ~ Greg Gutfeld

I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself. ~ Joe Kinnear

But my biggest passion is football. ~ Greg Akcelrod

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past. ~ Greg Iles

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat. ~ Greg Bear

Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get so upset about losing, he'd never maintain the level that he has. I see his point, but somehow I can't accept the idea that these sorts of verbal assaults on people are justified, no matter what their end goal is. ~ Irina Krush

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career. ~ Greg Graffin

The fox speaks with the hurricane and says, "I need to travel far and fast. Can you take me?" The hurricane regards the puny fox with its huge, calm eye and asks, "What can you do for me?" "Why, I will let you whisper your dreams to me." "But I must kill whatever I carry. You are a living thing and do not wish to die." "If you do not kill me, I will listen to your inmost self, and tell all the animals, that they may feel sympathy for you." "What do I care for sympathy? I am all-powerful." "Yes, but someday, your winds will die, and my kits will tell this tale even when you are gone, of the time great-great-great-grandfather fox was carried by the winds and lived and learned their secrets." "But then they will not be afraid of me, and what good am I if I do not inspire fear?" "Oh, no living thing could ever be so strong they would not fear you. I give you something more. I give you a voice throughout time that is more than a wordless bellow of rage. ~ Greg Bear

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God. ~ Greg Boyle

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on. ~ Greg Bryk

If clients don't trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn't matter how smart you are. ~ Greg Smith

To see the awful things is to see life as it really is. It makes you sharper, stronger, superior. You can stand it when others cannot. ~ Greg Bear

You're gonna check my computer records? Is that important? I don't think the government needs to know how I feel about teen Asian sluts in order to fight terrorism. ~ Greg Giraldo

When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.' ~ Greg Camp

One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water. ~ Greg Benson

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members. ~ Greg Lake

Vezon, frankly, was disappointed. Sure, he had tried to steal the Mask of Life, and, yes, he had tried to kill the Toa Inika once, well, twice. And, okay, he had made an effort to trade their lives to the Zyglak in exchanged for his, but it's not like that had worked. And he had volunteered, well, been forced, well, actually been threatened with bodily harm if he didn't help, but he did aid in the rescue of Makuta Miserix. And what was his reward? A cold cell, an uncaring guard, and nothing nearby he could use to kill the Piraka. Was that justice? ~ Greg Farshtey

In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long. ~ Greg MacGillivray

An Ax was raised into the smoke filled sky while the surrounding soldiers pinned him down and stood on his hands. It took more than a dozen blows to sever each arm just below the elbows. The strangest sensation, he said, was that one minute he could feel his knuckles being ground into the asphalt by the soldier's boot and in the next he watched the man kick his arm away and he felt nothing. ~ Greg Campbell

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood. ~ Greg Bryk

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches. ~ Greg Bear

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of. ~ Greg Behrendt

Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death ~ Greg Plitt

Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose provenance dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

And who among us, offered the chance, would not relive the day or hour in which we first knew love, or ecstasy, or made a choice that forever altered our future, negating a life we might have had? Such chances are rarely granted. Memory and grief prove Faulkner right enough, but Einstein knew the finality of action. If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago. ~ Greg Iles

There were only a couple of Marvel characters I read. I read 'Iron Man.' I have a lot of those. And this was the time they tried X-Factor out. I was never an X-Men person, but I was like, 'Let me check out X-Factor.' I was more of a DC guy in general. ~ Greg Berlanti