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" I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment. "

Kenneth Branagh

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" 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. "

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

" What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking. "

" I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain. "

Kenneth Branagh

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" I'm interested in creating new work. "

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

" '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.' "

" 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. "

" Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves. "

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

" It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. "

" I love thrillers, and I always have. "

" We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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

Work

Performance

" 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. "

" I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well. "

" I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once. "

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

Kenneth Branagh

Character

Love

" I'm always interested in contemporary fiction. "

" I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary. "

" If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness. "

" 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. "