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" I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar. "

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" 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

" I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner. "

" 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. "

" Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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 think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. "

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

" I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do. "

" I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university. "

Kenneth Branagh

University

Comprehensive

" If it's good art, it's good. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm by no means an opera buff. "

" I love thrillers, and I always have. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Kenneth Branagh

Frighten

Subjects

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life. "

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

" There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. "

" 'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller. "