We’re all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters’ mothers are all good friends with my mother. We’re a big family, 25 people. – Joel Kinnaman
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. – Joel Kinnaman
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they’re placed in a whodunit, then I’m interested. – Joel Kinnaman
Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish. – Joel Kinnaman
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays. – 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
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. – Joel Kinnaman
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. – Joel Kinnaman
The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized. – Joel Kinnaman
I feel like I’ve got the best job in the world. I just feel so fortunate to get paid to be a kid and play with my friends. So if it’s rough or a little bit hot, you just have to deal with that. – Joel Kinnaman
The original ‘RoboCop’ was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it’s what you don’t see that actually scares you. – Joel Kinnaman
I’m battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that. – Joel Kinnaman
I don’t reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It’s usually just what plays into what’s believable – ‘Am I believable at this age?’ – Joel Kinnaman
I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider’s perspective. – Joel Kinnaman
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. – Joel Kinnaman
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
I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way. – Joel Kinnaman
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. – Joel Kinnaman
I think ‘The Wire’ is my all-time favorite TV show. It’s so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power. – Joel Kinnaman
