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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. "

Kenneth Branagh

Work

Experience

Great

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Big

" 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. "

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

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Kenneth Branagh

Always

Comedy

" 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. "

" 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

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

Kenneth Branagh

Live

You

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

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

" 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. "

Kenneth Branagh

Off

Him

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

" '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.' "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary. "