Quotes from Greg Kinnear

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

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

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

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.

'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.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

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

I like complicated characters.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

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

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!

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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