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I would say my voice is actor-neutral.
— Kenneth Branagh
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.
— Kenneth Branagh
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
My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.
— Robert Sean Leonard
Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
— Kenneth Branagh
I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.
— Kenneth Branagh
Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
— Kenneth Branagh
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
— Kenneth Branagh
A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.
— Kenneth Branagh
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
— Kenneth Branagh
I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.
— Kenneth Branagh
If it's good art, it's good.
— Kenneth Branagh
I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
— Kenneth Branagh
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
— Kenneth Branagh
I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
— Kenneth Branagh
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
Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
— Kenneth Branagh
Do you know what I feel about Dr. Who's? I feel the same way as I do about the Bonds. I love them all. I love them all! I don't have favorites.
— Kenneth Branagh
The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'
— Kenneth Branagh
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
— Kenneth Branagh
I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.
— Kenneth Branagh
I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'
— Kenneth Branagh
For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'
— Kenneth Branagh
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
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
— Kenneth Branagh
I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
— Kenneth Branagh
I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
— Kenneth Branagh
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
— Kenneth Branagh
What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
— Kenneth Branagh
Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.
— Kenneth Branagh
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
— Kenneth Branagh
Adults are just children who earn money.
— Kenneth Branagh
Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.
— Kenneth Branagh
You can't live in nostalgia-land.
— Kenneth Branagh
I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
— Kenneth Branagh
There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.
— Kenneth Branagh
What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
— Kenneth Branagh
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.
— Kenneth Branagh
I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.
— Kenneth Branagh
I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.
— Kenneth Branagh
I'm interested in creating new work.
— Kenneth Branagh
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
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
— Kenneth Branagh
I love thrillers, and I always have.
— Kenneth Branagh
I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.
— Kenneth Branagh
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.
— Kenneth Branagh
I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.
— Kenneth Branagh
When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.
— Kenneth Branagh
I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
— Kenneth Branagh
I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11 ... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
— Kenneth Branagh
I've always loved the Bond films.
— Kenneth Branagh
I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
— Kenneth Branagh
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
Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.
— Kenneth Branagh
Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.
— Richard Madden
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
— Kenneth Branagh
I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.
— Kenneth Branagh
The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
— Kenneth Branagh
Life is surreal and beautiful.
— Kenneth Branagh
I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.
— Kenneth Branagh
I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
— Kenneth Branagh
I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.
— Kenneth Branagh
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
I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.
— Kenneth Branagh
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
— Kenneth Branagh
I'm by no means an opera buff.
— Kenneth Branagh
I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once.
— Kenneth Branagh
Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.
— Kenneth Branagh
I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.
— Kenneth Branagh
A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.
— Kenneth Branagh
If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.
— Kenneth Branagh
I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
— Kenneth Branagh
My definition of success is control.
— Kenneth Branagh
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
— Kenneth Branagh
The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
— Kenneth Branagh
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
After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.
— Kenneth Branagh
The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
— Kenneth Branagh
I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
— Kenneth Branagh
