Latest Joel Kinnaman Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

  Joel Kinnaman

  Attention, Pay, Like You

  Source: collider.com

• It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!'

  Joel Kinnaman

  Couple, Real, People

  Source: collider.com

• I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Hurt, Thinking, Boxers

  Source: collider.com

• I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Thinking, Superhero

  Source: collider.com

• It's great to get to work with your idols.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Idols

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• I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Looks, Kind

  Source: collider.com

• Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• I love Starship Troopers. That's really smart. I think he really could portray fascism in a comedic way. It's funny because both José [Padilha] and [Paul] Verhoeven were accused of being fascists for their movies because they had fascist leads. So, it's not going to have his tone, but there's going to be political satire in it.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Smart, Thinking, Political

  Source: collider.com

• With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Quality, Directors, Masters

  Source: collider.com

• You're not able to do a lot of projects because you don't have a name. I wanted to get my movies to come over that hedge, so that I could do the movies that I wanted to do.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Names, Able, Projects

  Source: collider.com

• I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Reading, Play, Directors

  Source: collider.com

• I сan't imagine how ROBOCOP could be PG-13.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Imagine, Robocop

  Source: collider.com

• It's frustrating when you come over here [Hollywood], especially from a position that I was in, in Sweden, where most people know who you are, but then you come here.

  Joel Kinnaman

  People, Hollywood, Sweden

  Source: collider.com

• I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is 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.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Creativity, Opposites, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way we're retelling. That's what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Stories, Way, Remakes

  Source: collider.com

• You have to think before speaking. That's a quality I'm continuously evolving. For some reason, it seems like I'm bumping my head into the wall a little bit too many times.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Wall, Thinking, Quality

  Source: collider.com

• I think the way we look upon gender is that we're realizing that we're not that different, which is a good thing. The United States needs to come further with that. In the Scandinavian countries, we've come further when it comes to gender politics and how we look upon gender and how women are treated in general.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Country, Thinking, Way

  Source: collider.com

• I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

  Source: collider.com

• You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, People, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

• You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Interesting, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Play, People, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

• You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Always Trying, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

• What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Strong, Two, Listening

  Source: collider.com

• 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 its very hard to define yourself.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Artist, Choices, Vagabonds

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com