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" A man always looks good in a dark suit. "
Greg Kinnear
Dark
Man
Looks
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" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "
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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. "
Greg Kinnear
Food
Feeling
Fast
" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "
Greg Kinnear
Always
Tragic
Think
" I like the classics! "
Greg Kinnear
Classics
Like
" 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
City
Time
Childhood
" 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
Thinking
Parents
Remember
" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "
Greg Kinnear
Table
Partners
You
" 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. "
Greg Kinnear
People
Struggle
Quality
" I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. "
Greg Kinnear
Work Hard
Fear
Find
" 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
Today
Good
Soup
" 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
School
Football
Team
" The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. "
Greg Kinnear
You
Use
Rain
" Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. "
Greg Kinnear
Turn
Collectors
Lovers
" 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
Feel
Trying
Drama
" 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
Me
Play
Advice
" '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
Sunshine
Small
Fun
" 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
Brain
Back
Character
" 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
Television
House
College
" I have always been interested in the concept of ruin. "
Greg Kinnear
Interested
Always
Concept
" 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
Color
Dinner
Flag
" I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "
Greg Kinnear
Whose
Punch
Happy
" 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 Feel
Movies
Sense
" Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. "
Greg Kinnear
Big
Courtroom
Day
" 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. "
Greg Kinnear
Own
People
More
" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "
Greg Kinnear
Think
Trying
Business
" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "
Greg Kinnear
Corporations
Big
Talking
" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "
Greg Kinnear
Enough
Find
Hard
" 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
End
Life
Money
" 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
Closing
Airport
Door
" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "
Greg Kinnear
Story
Feel
Easy