Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'
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The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'
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In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.
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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
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The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
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Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.
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Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
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I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.
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I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.
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I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
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Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.
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I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.
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I love thrillers, and I always have.
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Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.
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I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.
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If it's good art, it's good.
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Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.
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I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
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I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
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I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.
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I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.
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'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
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One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
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I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.