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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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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Kenneth Branagh
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You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.
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'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
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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 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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What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
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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.
Kenneth Branagh
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I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
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I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
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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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A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.
Kenneth Branagh -
I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.
Kenneth Branagh
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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 am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan.
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My definition of success is control.
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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.
Kenneth Branagh -
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Kenneth Branagh -
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.
Kenneth Branagh
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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 liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
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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 fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
Kenneth Branagh