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" The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements. "

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Kenneth Branagh

People

Pressure

Great

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

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

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

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

" I've always loved the Bond films. "

" When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest. "

Kenneth Branagh

Character

Love

" Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be. "

" I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.' "

" 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'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.' "

" '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.' "

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

" If it's good art, it's good. "

" I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast. "

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

" It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. "

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

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

" Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits. "

" For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed. "

" 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

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

" I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced. "

" I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar. "

" In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. "

" Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me. "

Kenneth Branagh

Frighten

Subjects

" 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. "

Kenneth Branagh

Feel

Done

" I'm basically quite a cheerful person. "

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