Kenneth Branagh Quotes

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

Kenneth Branagh

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Summer
  • Fight
  • Line

• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Position
  • Arts
  • Lillian Gish

• What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Me
  • Tough
  • Products

• This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

  

  Gary North
  • World
  • God
  • Religion

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Bored

• To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Better
  • Impossible

• I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Imagination

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

  

  T.I.
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Man

• I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Nature
  • Government

• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Art
  • Death
  • Courage

• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Believe
  • Prime

• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Women

• Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hurt

• Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.

  

  Irene Dunne

• I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Lazy

• I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

  

  Jeff Ross
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

  

  Bridget Fonda
  • People
  • Interesting

• Those who are endowed with a moral conscience refuse to commit crimes, even those sanctioned by the corporate state, because they do not in the end want to live with criminals-themselves.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Live
  • Moral

• I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

  

  Kenneth Branagh