Joel Kinnaman Quotes
My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
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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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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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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
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The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
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I want to come back in 2017 if things work well.
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A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.
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If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.
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My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
