Latest Greg Kinnear Quotes from Interviews

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• 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, what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? So I don't feel like that part of it changes. I have not reached the point - if there's a point you reach as an actor where it's, "Oh, I got this figured out, I know how to do this". But I am happy to say that the primary building blocks of where you start, at least, there is a little bit of sameness to that. And that's always nice.

  Greg Kinnear

  Nice, Block, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you have a director who has work you can identify from the past, it gives you some reference point as to what their interpretation of the story might be, and how that might jibe, right or wrong, with how you see it. But with a first-time director, you don't really know where you're at.

  Greg Kinnear

  Past, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Greg Kinnear

  Moving, Struggle, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Greg Kinnear

  Cat, Turns, Ifs

  "Good Humor Man". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 25, 2006.

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

  Greg Kinnear

  Magic, Champagne, Adolescence

  "Good Humor Man". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 25, 2006.

• 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

  Rooms, Straight Up, Chapel

  "Good Humor Man". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 25, 2006.

• 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

  Teacher, Drama, School

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

• '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.

  Greg Kinnear

  Real, Sunshine, Missing

  "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

• 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

  Thinking, People, Lines

  "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

• I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.

  Greg Kinnear

  Fall, Writing, College

  "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

• 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

  Jobs, Rap, Believe

  "Greg Kinnear Talks RAKE, His Approach to the Edgy Role, Similarity to the Australian Series, and More". Interview, collider.com. January 23, 2014.