102 Quotes by Greg Kinnear

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.