Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
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I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'
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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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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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In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.
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'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
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'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'
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I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
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I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
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I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'
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Do you know what I feel about Dr. Who's? I feel the same way as I do about the Bonds. I love them all. I love them all! I don't have favorites.
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My definition of success is control.
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I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
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I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way.
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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.
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The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
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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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I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.
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I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.