Joel Kinnaman Quotes

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• Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Girl, Humble, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Father, School, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As actors we're like these vagabond artists, we have to be invited to perform so if you don't have a choice of options its very hard to define yourself.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Artist, Choices, Vagabonds

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• You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Interesting, Trying

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• I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Thinking, Actors, Aliens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to think before speaking. That's a quality I'm continuously evolving. For some reason, it seems like I'm bumping my head into the wall a little bit too many times.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Wall, Thinking, Quality

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• I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Play, People, Shooting

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• I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Intuition, Projects

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate pork rinds. I couldn’t imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Hate, Race, Pigs

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I think for a lot of people that had seen me do Snabba Cash, after watching The Killing, I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Thinking, People

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Always Trying, Challenges

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• You're not able to do a lot of projects because you don't have a name. I wanted to get my movies to come over that hedge, so that I could do the movies that I wanted to do.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Names, Able, Projects

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• I think the way we look upon gender is that we're realizing that we're not that different, which is a good thing. The United States needs to come further with that. In the Scandinavian countries, we've come further when it comes to gender politics and how we look upon gender and how women are treated in general.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Country, Thinking, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way we're retelling. That's what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Stories, Way, Remakes

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• I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Hurt, Thinking, Boxers

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• I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Dream, New York, Cities

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Strong, Two, Listening

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• If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Pain, Thinking, Anxiety

  Source: collider.com

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• We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Mind, Roles, Why We Are Here

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• There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Brain, Body, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Mother, Hippie, Good Friend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

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• You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, People, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!'

  Joel Kinnaman

  Couple, Real, People

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• I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Spring, Missing, Way

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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