Joel Kinnaman Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Imagination, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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

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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

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

  Joel Kinnaman

  Idols

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• 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

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• Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Excuse, Crime, Robocop

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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• 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

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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.

  Joel Kinnaman

  People, Giving, Perfect

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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

  Joel Kinnaman

  Imagine, Robocop

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Spring, Missing, Way

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• 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

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