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
  • Men
  • 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
  • Feedback

• 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
  • Wise

• 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

• We are actively preparing a partial privatization of Rosneft itself. It is the best proof that our major plans have remained unchanged. Another example would be one of the largest Russian diamond mining companies in the world. We are privatizing part of our stake in that as well.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Company
  • Diamond

• The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Model
  • Inspired

• People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be a compelling narrative that drives along and keeps people coming back week after week. So really, with any successful show you could name, there has to be a mysterious blend of both of those.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • People
  • Mysterious

• When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Bigs
  • Ran
  • Buttons

• If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.

  

  Martin Rees
  • People
  • Business
  • Earth

• 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