Quotes from Joel Kinnaman

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

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

'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.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.

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.

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.

It's hard to act with just your jaw.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

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.

Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

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.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

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.

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.

I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.

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.'