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

Kenneth Branagh

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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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Looking Forward

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

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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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" I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. "

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

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" So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. "

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" I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood. "

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" 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. "

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" My definition of success is control. "

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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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" 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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" I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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" A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past. "

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" There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary. "

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" I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well. "

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

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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. "

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