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.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
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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.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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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.
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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.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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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.
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Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
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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....
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
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I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign it, 'Nudge for good.' Unfortunately, that is meant as a plea, not an expectation.
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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, it's very hard to define yourself.
