Greg Kinnear Quotes

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.