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" I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents. "
Kenneth Branagh
Celebrity
Big
Were
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" 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. "
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Things
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" It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. "
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" I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain. "
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" I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world. "
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" I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast. "
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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. "
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" I'm interested in creating new work. "
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" I love thrillers, and I always have. "
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" The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. "
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" It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. "
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" 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. "
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Good
Me
" I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt. "
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Third
Attempt
War
" You can't live in nostalgia-land. "
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Live
You
" I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.' "
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" 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. "
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Looking
Think
You
" If it's good art, it's good. "
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Art
Good
Good Art
" I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels. "
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People
Always
Fairy
" In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure. "
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Where
Who
Knew
" 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. "
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You
Car
Grass
" 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
Myself
Think
Me
" I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part. "
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Young
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" 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 am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan. "
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Fan
Am
I Am
" I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance. "
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Think
Day
Moment
" I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic. "
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Fact
Week
Marilyn
" I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people. "
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Powerful
People
Moscow
" 'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.' "
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Hero
Father
Past
" I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. "
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Tragic
Think
Figure
" 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
" Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that. "
Kenneth Branagh
Feel
Done
Go