Kenneth Branagh Quotes

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Kenneth Branagh

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 10, 1960

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

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 fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'

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My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

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For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.

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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

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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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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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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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I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

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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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In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.

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To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

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If it's good art, it's good.

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I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

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My definition of success is control.

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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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There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

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The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

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