Kenneth Branagh quotes

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

#Friendship #Support #World

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.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Different #Chance #Film

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

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

#Thinking #Film #Exciting

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

#Thinking #Mad #Figures

Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#People #Trying #Cameras

Adults are just children who earn money.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Family #Children #Adults

Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Keys #Sometimes #Easy

My definition of success is control.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Success #Definitions #Definition Of Success

If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Cities #Moscow #Littles

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

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

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Race #Creative #Competition

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

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Home #Ideas #Space

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.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Stupid #Self #People

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Hands #Way #Poet

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

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

#Actors #Goes On #Way

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

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

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

If it's good art, it's good.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Art #Good Art

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

#Country #People #Feelings

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Cheerful #Persons

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Extraordinary

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

#Glory #Sharpness #Offers

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.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Cutting #Play #Long

Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Truth #Reality #Opinion

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

#Mean #People #Mean People

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

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.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Kids #Naughty #People

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

#Trying #Guilty #Carpet

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Team #Play #Magic

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Done #Brilliant #Brilliant Ideas

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

#People #Accepting #Contradictory

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Voice #People #Inspire