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" 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
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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. "
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Feeling
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" 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
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Dinner
Flag
" 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
Think
Journalism
Connection
" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "
Greg Kinnear
Table
Partners
You
" I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! "
Greg Kinnear
Always
Training
Time
" 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
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Character
" 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? "
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Feel
Trying
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" 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. "
Greg Kinnear
Nothing
Time
Funny
" I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. "
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Make
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Try
" 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
" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "
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Me
Well
" 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. "
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Time
Cooking
Think
" 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
" I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "
Greg Kinnear
Movie
Admire
Stars
" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "
Greg Kinnear
Always
Tragic
Think
" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "
Greg Kinnear
Real Life
Events
Hollywood
" 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. "
Greg Kinnear
Grandfather
Two
Me
" I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. "
Greg Kinnear
Really
Clown
Just
" 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
" 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
" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "
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Think
Trying
Business
" 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
Los Angeles
Business
Dangerous
" I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. "
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Thought
Always
City
" Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. "
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Big
Courtroom
Day
" Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' "
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Today
Good
Soup
" I have a very well organized closet. "
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Well
Organized
Closet
" Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. "
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" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "
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Corporations
Big
Talking
" Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. "
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Lovers
" Everybody's family has problems. "
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Family
Problems
Everybody