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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
“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 donâ€™t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isnâ€™t good, or isnâ€™t useful for natural creative instincts”
-- Kenneth Branagh

#Race #Creative #Competition
“I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; itâ€™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 donâ€™t respect tells me I canâ€™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

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