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" 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. "

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" I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way. "

Kenneth Branagh

Way

Best

Working

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

" What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus. "

" You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different. "

" 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

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

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

" 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? "

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

Kenneth Branagh

Live

You

" 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. "

" 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 involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'm basically quite a cheerful person. "

" The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. "

" 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. "

" It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. "

Kenneth Branagh

Quite

Very

" 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. "

" I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once. "

" Life is surreal and beautiful. "

" There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in creating new work. "

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

" 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. "