Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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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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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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Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
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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 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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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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What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
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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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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
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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. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.
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What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
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Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.
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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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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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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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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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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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I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
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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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In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.
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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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My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.