Kenneth Branagh Quotes

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Kenneth Branagh

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 10, 1960

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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I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.

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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 am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

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I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.

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At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

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The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.

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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

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'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

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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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What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

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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 don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

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There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

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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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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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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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I've always loved the Bond films.

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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

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