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" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. "

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

" 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. "

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

Greg Kinnear

Felt

Never

" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "

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

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

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

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

" Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. "

" I have a very well organized closet. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

" I like complicated characters. "

Greg Kinnear

Characters

Complicated

" 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. "

" Everybody's family has problems. "

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

" I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! "

" I like the classics! "

Greg Kinnear

Classics

" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "

Greg Kinnear

Know

Well

" 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. "

" 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