Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office.
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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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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 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 elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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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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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.
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You can't live in nostalgia-land.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
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What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
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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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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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My definition of success is control.
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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
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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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When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.
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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 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 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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I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan.
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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'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.