Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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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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So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
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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 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 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've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
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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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My definition of success is control.
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When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.
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You can't live in nostalgia-land.
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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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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 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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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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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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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'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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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I loved 'Kundun.'