Kinnear Quotes & Sayings

Writing will remain a passion project. — Rory Kinnear

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog. — Rory Kinnear

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally. — Rory Kinnear

I've never felt like my career has been on fire. — Greg Kinnear

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. — Greg Kinnear

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher. — Rory Kinnear

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit. — Rory Kinnear

Ride with the hands of a lady, the trust of a child, the posture of a king and the manners of a gentleman. — Annette Kinnear

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all. — Greg Kinnear

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

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny. — Miranda Otto

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

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters. — Rory Kinnear

Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father. — Rory Kinnear

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency. — Joe Kinnear

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong. — Greg Kinnear

I like the classics! — Greg Kinnear

Everybody's family has problems. — Greg Kinnear

If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20. — Greg Kinnear

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. — Greg Kinnear

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become. — Rory Kinnear

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home. — Rory Kinnear

I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself. — Joe Kinnear

'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. — Greg Kinnear

We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League. — Joe Kinnear

The nice thing about doing a weekly record is you're rehearsing all week and working on getting the script better. Come Friday, when it's time to actually film it, you feel like you've done most of the work! — Rory Kinnear

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

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things. — Rory Kinnear

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

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. — Greg Kinnear

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life. — Rory Kinnear

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. — Greg Kinnear

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? — Greg Kinnear

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. — Greg Kinnear

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. — Greg Kinnear

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

I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing. — Rory Kinnear

I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job. — Rory Kinnear

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

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. — Greg Kinnear

A man always looks good in a dark suit. — Greg Kinnear

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic. — Rory Kinnear

Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean. — Simon Pegg

I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off. — Rory Kinnear

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. — Greg Kinnear

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

'Little Miss Sunshine' was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. It's usually found in small pockets. But, it ended up getting a real following and worked out pretty well. — Greg Kinnear

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him. — Greg Kinnear

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university. — Rory Kinnear

I like complicated characters. — Greg Kinnear

I don't get what's happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He's lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you're the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about 'everyone hates us and we don't care' sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang. — Peter Chapman

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh." — Greg Kinnear

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

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford. — Rory Kinnear

If you're working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children. — Rory Kinnear

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

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. — Greg Kinnear

Cher's great, she's incredible. She is an enormous, enormous star, who goes anywhere and crowds follow her ... and yet she's a disciplined actress and she's down to Earth and cool. I can't say enough good things about her. — Greg Kinnear

I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald. — Rory Kinnear

If I have to move on from Newcastle, hopefully it will be to somewhere else — Joe Kinnear

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. — Greg Kinnear

Well, I don't know what image people have of me. — Greg Kinnear

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

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! — Greg Kinnear

The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age. — Rory Kinnear

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

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered. — Rory Kinnear

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. — Greg Kinnear

When you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity"

Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop in AS GOOD AS IT GETS — Various

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

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

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did. — Rory Kinnear

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. — Greg Kinnear

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

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

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester. — Greg Kinnear

If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later. — Joe Kinnear

I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs. — Rory Kinnear

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. — Joe Kinnear

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

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

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience. — Rory Kinnear

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

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. — Greg Kinnear

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

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. — Greg Kinnear

I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer. — Rory Kinnear

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries. — Rory Kinnear

Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong. — Rory Kinnear

Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together. — Rory Kinnear

It's funny, I lived my first 38 years of my life with maybe one or two people ever saying that I looked like Greg Kinnear. As soon as I get into the entertainment industry, now it's 100 percent of people. — Greg Poehler

I'm not a snob ... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor. — Rory Kinnear

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. — Greg Kinnear

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

My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy. — Joel McHale

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

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

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. — Greg Kinnear

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. — Greg Kinnear