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" I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. "
Greg Kinnear
Along
Things
Map
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" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "
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" Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. "
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Big
Courtroom
Day
" 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 have always been interested in the concept of ruin. "
Greg Kinnear
Interested
Always
Concept
" '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
" 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
" There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling. "
Greg Kinnear
Think
Good
Way
" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "
Greg Kinnear
Table
Partners
You
" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "
Greg Kinnear
Corporations
Big
Talking
" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "
Greg Kinnear
Real Life
Events
Hollywood
" I like the classics! "
Greg Kinnear
Classics
Like
" I've never felt like my career has been on fire. "
Greg Kinnear
Felt
Like
Never
" I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. "
Greg Kinnear
Make
Role
Try
" 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'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "
Greg Kinnear
Whose
Punch
Happy
" A man always looks good in a dark suit. "
Greg Kinnear
Dark
Man
Looks
" 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 don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "
Greg Kinnear
Movie
Admire
Stars
" We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. "
Greg Kinnear
Just
Double
Human
" 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 was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. "
Greg Kinnear
Really
Clown
Just
" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "
Greg Kinnear
Always
Tragic
Think
" Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. "
Greg Kinnear
Always
Part
Game
" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "
Greg Kinnear
Know
Me
Well
" 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
" 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'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
" Everybody's family has problems. "
Greg Kinnear
Family
Problems
Everybody
" 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 like complicated characters. "
Greg Kinnear
Characters
Like
Complicated