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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When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.
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I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
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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'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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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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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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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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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 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 did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
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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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What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
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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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You can't live in nostalgia-land.
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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 certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
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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 loved 'Kundun.'
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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.
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I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'