Greg Kinnear Quotes

My father, who is now in Heaven, was a supporter of La U, and I think the truth is that a lot of my family would like me to end up there. My dad was the pillar of the family, and sometimes people do things for their family as well.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.

I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

Following in my father's footsteps is not a big deal to me.

I'm my dad's kid, and I'm still, right or wrong, fighting that uphill battle, and I'm not saying that makes sense. I mean my dad didn't hire me at Fox... but it certainly gave me my start, and I think I'm always kind of fighting that.

I have played all generations in reel and real life - grandson, son, father, and grandfather - and each relationship has taught me something.

It was clear that my father wanted us to work with him. I mean, it is a family company.

I can confidently say that I have a great relationship with my siblings, though I know not everybody does. I would hope that my children have a very similar relationship with each other.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

What strange creatures brothers are!

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.