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31 quotes by Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter from Northern Ireland. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award...
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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... →

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

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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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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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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

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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.... →

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My definition of success is control.

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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.

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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

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If it's good art, it's good.

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