Joel Kinnaman Quotes
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I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.
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I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash', after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.
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I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
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We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.
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Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.
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I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
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I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.
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In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
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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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Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
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We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.
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Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.
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I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.
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I'm a pretty good chess player.
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It's hard to act with just your jaw.
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What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original.
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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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The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.
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I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
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I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
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I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
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I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
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We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.
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I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.