Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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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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The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
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I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
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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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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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I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
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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'm always interested in contemporary fiction.
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For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
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I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.
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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 glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.
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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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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
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A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.
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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 did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
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It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
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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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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.