GREG KINNEAR

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

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

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

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

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.

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.

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

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.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

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.

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.

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

I have a very well organized closet.

I like the classics!

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

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.

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