Joel Kinnaman Quotes

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, it's very hard to define yourself.

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• I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Remember
  • Rock
  • Sex

• One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • History
  • True

• We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Past

• Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Heart
  • Falling
  • Scenery

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Long
  • Business

• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Union
  • Martyrdom
  • Matrimony

• Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • War
  • Breed
  • Timidity

• I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Great
  • May
  • Me

• I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Work
  • Wanted
  • Kate

• I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Because
  • Smoking
  • Tobacco

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That’s the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can’t do the work, or it’s taken from you, then what’s any good? You have to have something....

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Taken

• It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Truth

• The cynic says 'blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.' I say 'blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed.'

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Blessed

• No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Jesus

• I have fond memories of all things Henson. I grew up on the stuff. My mom's a massive fan and made sure it was a part of my upbringing.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Memories

• I've had a black guy call me a honky, and I've also been told that white people smell like bologna.

  

  Brooke Hogan
  • White People
  • Bologna
  • Black Guy

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

  

  Charlie Crist
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Together

• 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, it's very hard to define yourself.

  

  Joel Kinnaman