Joel Kinnaman famous quotes

06-14-2025

If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Pain #Thinking #Anxiety
There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones. I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different Hamlets, and every one has given me something different.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Thinking #Different #Stories
We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Mother #Hippie #Good Friend
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.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Real #Grief #People
Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Girl #Humble #Thinking
We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Mind #Roles #Why We Are Here
In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Father #School #Kids
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Dream #New York #Cities
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.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Character #Thinking #People
I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Senior #Running #School
I think I've seen the first 'RoboCop' like 15 or 20 times. I'm like a kid that way.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Kids #Thinking #Way
I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Hate #Race #Pigs
I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Intuition #Projects
I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Thinking #Actors #Aliens
I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Spring #Missing #Way
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Character #Looks #Stories
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.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Real #Imagination #Actors
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.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#People #Giving #Perfect
Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Excuse #Crime #Excuse Me
There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Brain #Body #Way

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