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" 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. "

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" Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. "

Kenneth Branagh

Film

Good

" What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus. "

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

Kenneth Branagh

University

Comprehensive

" My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination. "

" 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. "

" I love thrillers, and I always have. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. "

Kenneth Branagh

Myself

Think

" To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass. "

" My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?' "

" I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground. "

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

Kenneth Branagh

Admirer

Big

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Kenneth Branagh

Fan

I Am

" My definition of success is control. "

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

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

" In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure. "

" In the case of 'Jack Ryan,' it was a huge collaboration, and I enjoyed it very much, and most of all, I want the audience to enjoy it, too. I want them to feel immersed in this world. "

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

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

" The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time. "

" Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers. "