Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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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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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 was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.
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To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
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I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
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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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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'm by no means an opera buff.
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I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'
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The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
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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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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 did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
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So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
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I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.
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A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.
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'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
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I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.
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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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I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.