Joel Kinnaman Quotes

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Joel Kinnaman

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 25, 1979

Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.

Joel Kinnaman

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

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.

Joel Kinnaman

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

All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.

Joel Kinnaman

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.'

Joel Kinnaman

I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

Joel Kinnaman

I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.

Joel Kinnaman

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.

Joel Kinnaman

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

I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.

Joel Kinnaman

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.

Joel Kinnaman

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.'

Joel Kinnaman

In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'

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I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.

Joel Kinnaman

I'm a pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.

Joel Kinnaman

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

Joel Kinnaman

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

Joel Kinnaman

I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.

Joel Kinnaman

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

Joel Kinnaman