Greg Kinnear
Greg Kinnear
Gregory Buck "Greg" Kinnearis an American actor and television personality. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 June 1963
CityLogansport, IN
CountryUnited States of America
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'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.
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I'm someone who's always looked forward to marriage. My parents being together for so long made marriage that much more important.
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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.
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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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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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I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!
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Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
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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.
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I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.
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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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I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.
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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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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.
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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.