Kenneth Branagh Quotes

The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.

Kenneth Branagh

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• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Blessed

• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Important
  • Together
  • Laugh

• When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Mainstream
  • Then

• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Laughing

• I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Picture
  • Feels
  • Surface

• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • World
  • Painting
  • Decisions

• The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Period

• You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Color

• I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Gentleman

• Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Unity

• Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

  

  Harper Lee
  • People

• 'Well,' said Dr Jochum, 'you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Trying

• Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Life

• When you first meet someone, it's always about one-upmanship. The couple tries to impress each other.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Couple

• It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Home
  • Strange
  • Film Industry

• We're not defined by our circumstances, and we can always find a way to rise above it.

  

  Ashleigh Murray

• I know it's not the '80s anymore, but the '80s are back with a vengeance. Get yourself some neon; whether it's a cute sneaker, a pump or a cross-body bag, add to your wardrobe a pop of neon.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Cute

• We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

  

  David Gill
  • Future

• The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.

  

  Kenneth Branagh