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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

Don't stand up when you can sit down and don't sit down when you can lie down. — 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

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. — 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

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre. — 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

'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller. — Kenneth Branagh

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me. — Kenneth Branagh

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

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. — 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 no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me. — Tom Hollander

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

Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that. — Jonathan Dee

I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner. — 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

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace. — Kenneth Branagh

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest. — Kenneth Branagh

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

I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic. — Kenneth Branagh

The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time. — 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

I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan. — 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

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring. — 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

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