Kenneth Branagh Quotes

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

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Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.
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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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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
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We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.
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My definition of success is control.
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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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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 don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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If it's good art, it's good.
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If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
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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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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.
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I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
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I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.
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I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
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