Kenneth Branagh Quotes

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• I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
• Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
• 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…
• I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
• In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
• One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
• 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.…
• 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…
• As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.
• My definition of success is control.
• Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.
• It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
• I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in…
• Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very…
• I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
• I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had…
• So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
• If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.
• It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
• 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…

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