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

Kenneth Branagh

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" 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?' "

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