Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.
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I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.
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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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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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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
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I loved 'Kundun.'
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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 am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan.
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I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
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I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
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I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
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There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.
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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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It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
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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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You can't live in nostalgia-land.
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
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I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
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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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The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
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The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.