Joel Kinnaman Quotes

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

Joel Kinnaman

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• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Money
  • Free

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Very

• I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Know
  • Action
  • Committee

• I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • School
  • Medical
  • Biology

• I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Service
  • Sacrifice

• Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God

• One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Boat
  • Lesbian

• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • True

• I love sweets. I have a tendency to go out at, like, 11 P.M. and get a giant piece of cake because I'm craving it. The problem is if you eat a big piece of cake that late, you wake up in the morning feeling really sick.

  

  Brendan Robinson
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Morning

• I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Work
  • Money
  • Respect

• I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn't even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I'm paying my own bills. I'm about to move my mama in with me at 19. I'm on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.

  

  Kehlani
  • Homeless

• Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Girl
  • Style
  • Fashion Icon

• Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

  

  John Wanamaker
  • She
  • Deception

• We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where driverless cars are going to take over. Like, how are you going - it's gotten really, how are you going to have a job in 10 years, and how are your kids going to have a job in 10 years, if you haven't gone to college or had a lot of hand-ups in the system, basically.

  

  Neera Tanden
  • Job
  • Years
  • Answer

• It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

  

  Joel Kinnaman