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" I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet. "
Kenneth Branagh
Trying
Things
Guilty
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" I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.' "
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Fact
Enough
Odd
" The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements. "
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Out
Much
Exciting
" I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. "
Kenneth Branagh
Live
English
Countryside
" 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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Fairy Tale
Live
" 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
First
You
Book
" 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
" I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan. "
Kenneth Branagh
Fan
Am
I Am
" '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.' "
Kenneth Branagh
Hero
Father
Past
" You can't live in nostalgia-land. "
Kenneth Branagh
Live
You
" It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. "
Kenneth Branagh
Accept
Quite
Very
" I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance. "
Kenneth Branagh
Dance
Rage
Think
" I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic. "
Kenneth Branagh
Fact
Week
Marilyn
" 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
" 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
Worst
Think
People
" The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.' "
Kenneth Branagh
Chinese
Interesting
Live
" I'm interested in creating new work. "
Kenneth Branagh
Interested
New
Creating
" One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring. "
Kenneth Branagh
Him
Give
Problems
" Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself. "
Kenneth Branagh
Inspiration
See
Him
" A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre. "
Kenneth Branagh
Been
Theatre
Looking
" It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. "
Kenneth Branagh
Strange
You
People
" I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people. "
Kenneth Branagh
Powerful
People
Moscow
" I loved 'Kundun.' "
Kenneth Branagh
Loved
" In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt. "
Kenneth Branagh
Mirror
Looking
Disappointment
" I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. "
Kenneth Branagh
Me
Always
Comedy
" I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents. "
Kenneth Branagh
Celebrity
Big
Were
" In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace. "
Kenneth Branagh
World
Kind
Violence
" 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. "
Kenneth Branagh
Past
Choose
Done
" 'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller. "
Kenneth Branagh
Jack
Contemporary
Fast-Paced
" I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things. "
Kenneth Branagh
Direct
Actor
Did
" A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past. "
Kenneth Branagh
Other
Past
In The Past