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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Countryside
#English
#Live
#Surrounded
I'm by no means an opera buff.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Buff
#Means
#Opera
The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Both
#Fantastic
#Meaningless
#Same
#Time
Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Brilliant
#Career
#Inspiration
#See
#Sir
I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Basically
#Cheerful
#Person
#Quite
I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Belfast
#Boy
#Class
#Just
#Normal
I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Always
#Experience
#Important
#Music
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
#Dead
#People
#Ready
#Talent
#Work
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Car
#Grass
#Look
#Painting
#See
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
#Bones
#Breathing
#Natural
#Theatre
#Want
The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Glory
#Image
#Offers
#Sharpness
I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Dance
#Only
#Situation
#Stuck
#Villain
Life is surreal and beautiful.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Beautiful
#Life
#Surreal
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Ability
#Best
#Childlike
#Lose
#Quality
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
#Fire
#I Am
#Language
#Love
#Way
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
#Family
#Grateful
#Health
#Life
#Time
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Friendship
#Most
#Things
#Which
#World
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
#Experience
#Important
#Language
#Music
#Want
#Words
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.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Courage
#Face
#Personality
#Unique
#Up
My definition of success is control.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Control
#Definition
#Success Is
#Success
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Enjoy Life
#Enjoy
#Laugh
#Life
#Smile
I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Hope
#I Am
#Later
#Looking Forward
#Looking
#New
Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
- Kenneth Branagh
#Always
#Love
#Saint Patrick's Day
#Words
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