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


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 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'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.


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 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.


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.


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


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


I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.


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


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


I like the classics!


I like complicated characters.


I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.


I have a very well organized closet.


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


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.


Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.


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.