Kenneth Branagh Quotes
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I always try to give my songs as gifts.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above all, I'm going to play my hardest.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
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Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
