Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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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'm always interested in contemporary fiction.
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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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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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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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I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.
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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 very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.
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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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You can't live in nostalgia-land.
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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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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'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
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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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'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 did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
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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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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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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
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I loved 'Kundun.'
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I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
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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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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.