Joel Kinnaman Quotes
My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
Quotes to Explore
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.
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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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Whenever I go to see her, she recharges my energy and enables me to cope with the many challenges and demands of my busy life.
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My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
