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" Life is surreal and beautiful. "
Kenneth Branagh
Surreal
Beautiful
Life
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" I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off. "
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" I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos. "
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" I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. "
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" In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace. "
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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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" What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking. "
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" Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me. "
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" 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. "
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" I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later. "
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" I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Guy
Funny
You
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world. "
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World
" When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest. "
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" I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. "
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Published
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" In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm always interested in contemporary fiction. "
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" Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. "
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" 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? "
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" I'm by no means an opera buff. "
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