Kenneth Cranham

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

— Kenneth Cranham

The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really…

— Kenneth Cranham

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often,…

— Kenneth Cranham

The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives…

— Kenneth Cranham

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of…

— Kenneth Cranham

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got…

— Kenneth Cranham

Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in…

— Kenneth Cranham

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

— Kenneth Cranham

When I was in Lochgelly as a boy, I went to the cinema every night - and on Sundays, I used to…

— Kenneth Cranham

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love…

— Kenneth Cranham

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get…

— Kenneth Cranham

I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I've played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the…

— Kenneth Cranham

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way,…

— Kenneth Cranham

Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in…

— Kenneth Cranham

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to…

— Kenneth Cranham

You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my 'Harvey Moon' years, then as…

— Kenneth Cranham

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think…

— Kenneth Cranham

I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton…

— Kenneth Cranham