143 Quotes by Joel Kinnaman

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.

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.

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.

I don’t think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

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

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.

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!’

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.

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.