Kenneth Branagh

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes…

— Kenneth Branagh

I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy…

— Kenneth Branagh

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives…

— Kenneth Branagh

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

— Kenneth Branagh

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very…

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't…

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older…

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

— Kenneth Branagh

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic…

— Kenneth Branagh

I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the…

— Kenneth Branagh

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.

— Kenneth Branagh

Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's…

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Kenneth Branagh

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

— Kenneth Branagh

I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in…

— Kenneth Branagh