Kenneth Branagh Quotes

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • May
  • Beautiful

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Distance
  • Now

• It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Hollywood

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • History
  • Period

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Marriage
  • Exercise
  • Torture

• Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Feeling
  • Focus
  • Something

• I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Always
  • Never

• People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

  

  Psy
  • Good
  • Why
  • Funny

• I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

  

  John Grisham
  • Good
  • Death
  • Insurance

• History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Good
  • History
  • Band

• Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
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