Joel Kinnaman Quotes
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Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
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We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
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I feel like I've got the best job in the world. I just feel so fortunate to get paid to be a kid and play with my friends. So if it's rough or a little bit hot, you just have to deal with that.
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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.
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When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesting. I'll probably watch that at some point, but I'm not interested at all to be in it.'
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I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
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I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.
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I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.
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I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.
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When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.
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'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.
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I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'
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I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.
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I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
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We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.
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Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
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In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.
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My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
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The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
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I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
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For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
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I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
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It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.
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I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.