Kenneth Branagh Quotes

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

Kenneth Branagh

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• Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Humanity
  • Daily
  • Dreams

• The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Band
  • Guys
  • Instruments

• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Like
  • Director
  • Frustrated

• Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Artist

• New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Society
  • Support
  • Rise

• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Minority

• If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Band

• I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Good
  • Future
  • Positive

• There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Great
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  • Power

• For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • Food
  • Me

• Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

  

  Harold Stephen Black
  • Performance
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• Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Like
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• As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Find

• They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

  

  John Boehner
  • World
  • Real
  • America

• It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

  

  Bob Geldof
  • People
  • Die
  • Simple

• It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Interesting
  • Powerful

• By 'Revolution', we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • World
  • May
  • Society

• No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beauteous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in lovely April's name did hide, And leave it there, eternally allied To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Forever
  • Forget
  • Frame

• I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

  

  Kenneth Branagh