Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
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My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
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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.
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If it's good art, it's good.
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A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.
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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
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Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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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 think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.
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I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
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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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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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My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
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I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
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In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
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The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office.
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You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
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Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
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In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.