Kenneth Branagh Quotes

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• Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Friendship, Support, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Character, Unique, Personality

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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

  Hands, Way, Poet

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• Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Philosophical, Preparation, Intellectual

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Honesty, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 14, 2014.

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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.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Quality, Actors

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• It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Mean, People, Mean People

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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

  Kenneth Branagh

  Breathing, Theatre, Want

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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.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Mean, Fire, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My definition of success is control.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Success, Definitions, Definition Of Success

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adults are just children who earn money.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Family, Children, Adults

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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.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Mysterious Things, Actors, Goes On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Important, Directors

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• As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Want, Tell Me I Can T, I Can

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• Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Aging, Fearlessness

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• Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Lying, Down And

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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.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Insecure, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Accepting, Contradictory

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• I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Mad, Figures

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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.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Dying, Talent

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• For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, World, Littles

  "CINDERELLA Interview: Kenneth Branagh". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Extraordinary, Elasticity

  "'Gnomeo and Juliet' director Kelly Asbury" by Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. February 6, 2011.

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• I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Elements, Film

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• The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Passion, People, Done

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Hands, Acting, Directors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2010.

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