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" 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
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" 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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" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "
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" 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. "
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Team
" I like the classics! "
Greg Kinnear
Classics
Like
" I have always been interested in the concept of ruin. "
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Interested
Always
Concept
" 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. "
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Find
People
" I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "
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Whose
Punch
Happy
" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "
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Enough
Find
Hard
" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "
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Know
Me
Well
" 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. "
Greg Kinnear
Father
Brother
Cool
" 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
" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "
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Story
Feel
Easy
" Everybody's family has problems. "
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Family
Problems
Everybody
" Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. "
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Turn
Collectors
Lovers
" I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. "
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Thought
Always
City
" 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
" Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. "
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Big
Courtroom
Day
" I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. "
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Work Hard
Fear
Find
" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "
Greg Kinnear
Real Life
Events
Hollywood
" 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. "
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People
Struggle
Quality
" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "
Greg Kinnear
Always
Tragic
Think
" 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
" I like complicated characters. "
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Characters
Like
Complicated
" 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. "
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Thinking
Parents
Remember
" 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
" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "
Greg Kinnear
Table
Partners
You
" 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
" 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
" 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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I Feel
Movies
Sense