102 Quotes by Greg Kinnear

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

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.