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" 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

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" I like complicated characters. "

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" I have always been interested in the concept of ruin. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "

" 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. "

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Grandfather

Two

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

" 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? "

" Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting. "

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

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

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Felt

Never

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A man always looks good in a dark suit. "

" You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. "

" 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. "

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

" Everybody's family has problems. "

" I like the classics! "

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Classics

" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "