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Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Irish Actor
Born: Dec 10, 1960
Love Me People Think Work You
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I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them. Kenneth Branagh
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It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. Kenneth Branagh
Love You Strange People Cruel Most Very Often
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? Kenneth Branagh
You Ignorance Human Being Cruelty Cinderella Neglect About Somehow Triumphs Underdog Read How How Many Times Subjected Times Often Human Being Ordinary Story Who Many
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. Kenneth Branagh
Best People Greedy Think Vain Worst Insecure Kindest Generous Most Greatest Actor
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. Kenneth Branagh
Good Freedom Creative World Naughty Invention Energy Think Films Entertaining Shakespeare Inspiring Put Contain Often Short Short Films Deed Good Deed Originality
I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre. Kenneth Branagh
Natural Theatre Come Want Breathing Bones
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. Kenneth Branagh
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. Kenneth Branagh
Great Words Poet Ways Understand Affecting Hands Us
A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have. Kenneth Branagh
Dangerous Unhappy Relative Brother Who
Life is surreal and beautiful. Kenneth Branagh
Life Beautiful Surreal
I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing. Kenneth Branagh
Time Health You Value Way More Suppose Passing Friendships Different Much Your Connections Different Way Aware Things
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. Kenneth Branagh
People Stupid Other Way Extremes Mad Kind Some Self Obsessed Like Same Anyway Them Honest
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. Kenneth Branagh
Language Way Some Shakespeare Mysterious Surprised Continuously Goes Whereby Process Them Actor Acts Actually Thing Playing
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. Kenneth Branagh
Together Long Too Easier Follow Audience Version Versions Close Intense Cut Actor Play Actually Speeches
The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. Kenneth Branagh
Extraordinary Shakespeare Elasticity
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. Kenneth Branagh
Would Would-Be Magic Animation Invitation Terrific Them Team Many Imaginative Plays
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves. Kenneth Branagh
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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. Kenneth Branagh
People Accept Very Contradictory Quite Just Hard
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. Kenneth Branagh
Work People Desperate Only Cast Talent Dead Ready Were Dying Really Who Whose Believed Necessary
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. Kenneth Branagh
Will Too Characters Has-Been Thousands Admire Something Cast Something New Part New Talented Like Been Familiar Times Done Certain Each Now Actor Each One Play Bring
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. Kenneth Branagh
Think Mad He Gloomy Hamlet Nor Tragic Figure
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. Kenneth Branagh
You Sometimes Think Kind Shakespeare Gives Instance Been Very Which Theatrical Bogus Lucky Associated Careers
I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it. Kenneth Branagh
Cinema Word Will Long Own Mouth Those Out Hopefully Entertaining See Make Audience Sake Offer Did Want Wanted Word-Of-Mouth Show Who Film
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. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand. Kenneth Branagh
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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. Kenneth Branagh
Love Language Fire Way Visceral Would Some Shakespeare More Through Part Feel Freer Am Cultural Irish Than Repository Current Being Mean Planet Shot English Why Utterly Elite Resist British
I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do. Kenneth Branagh
Work Great People Inspire Guinness Hopkins John Laurence Laurence Olivier Voices Had Anthony Hopkins Heard Sir Privilege Being Interested Working Acting Who Started Alec
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