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" 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. "

Kenneth Branagh

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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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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 elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. "

" There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling. "

" My definition of success is control. "

" 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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" It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say. "

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" 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. "

" I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. "

" Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan. "

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

" You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different. "

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

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Admirer

Big

" My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people. "

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

" 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. "

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

Kenneth Branagh

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