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

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

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

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

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

Greg Kinnear

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

Greg Kinnear

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

Greg Kinnear

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

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 find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

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

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

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

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

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

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

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

Greg Kinnear

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.

Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

Greg Kinnear

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

Greg Kinnear

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

Greg Kinnear

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

Greg Kinnear

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

Greg Kinnear

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!

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

I like complicated characters.

Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

Greg Kinnear