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" 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
Hot
Then
Age
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" Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. "
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" I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off. "
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" I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new. "
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" So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. "
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" I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.' "
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Something
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" One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring. "
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Give
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" 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
Audience
Play
Together
" You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different. "
Kenneth Branagh
Wonder
Be Different
You
" The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office. "
Kenneth Branagh
Box
Move On
Office
" 'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. "
Kenneth Branagh
Many
Other
Kind
" 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
I Am
Way
Love
" I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.' "
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Director
Stage
Say
" 'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller. "
Kenneth Branagh
Jack
Contemporary
Fast-Paced
" Life is surreal and beautiful. "
Kenneth Branagh
Surreal
Beautiful
Life
" I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people. "
Kenneth Branagh
Powerful
People
Moscow
" Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be. "
Kenneth Branagh
Always
Shakespeare
Dance
" My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people. "
Kenneth Branagh
Parents
Make
Ordinary
" 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
Face
Courage
Personality
" I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. "
Kenneth Branagh
Troubled
Published
Man
" A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have. "
Kenneth Branagh
Unhappy
Who
Brother
" I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced. "
Kenneth Branagh
Looking
Think
You
" What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it. "
Kenneth Branagh
People
Things
Simple
" Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. "
Kenneth Branagh
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Think
Me
" Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. "
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Chance
Fairy Tale
Live
" 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
Film
Good
Me
" The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. "
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Extraordinary
Elasticity
Shakespeare
" Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. "
Kenneth Branagh
Most
Things
Which
" I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. "
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Life
Think
Extraordinary
" Being Irish, I always had this love of words. "
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Love
Being
Had
" I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later. "
Kenneth Branagh
I Am
Looking
Looking Forward