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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. "

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" '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

" I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.' "

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

" 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 live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. "

" You can't live in nostalgia-land. "

Kenneth Branagh

Live

You

" I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre. "

" 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've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. "

Kenneth Branagh

Always

Comedy

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

" 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 suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm always interested in contemporary fiction. "

" I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part. "

" 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. "

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

" I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.' "

" 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. "