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All Quotes by author - Kenneth Branagh

" A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past. "

" 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. "

" Being Irish, I always had this love of words. "

" Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly. "

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

" 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. "

" Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits. "

" 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. "

" For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.' "

" 'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. "

" Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. "

" How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs? "

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

" I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later. "

Looking Forward

" I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet. "

" I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you. "

" I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre. "

" I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents. "

" I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. "

" I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things. "

" I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it. "

" I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new. "

" I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way. "

" 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. "

" I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. "

" I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos. "

" 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. "

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