Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down. Kenneth Branagh More Quotes by Kenneth Branagh More Quotes From Kenneth Branagh Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. Kenneth Branagh supportfriendshipworld In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. Kenneth Branagh poethandsway 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 uniquepersonalitycharacter Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it. Kenneth Branagh philosophicalpreparationintellectual 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 qualityactorsthinking It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity. Kenneth Branagh honestymeanthinking 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 firemeanway 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 breathingtheatrewant My definition of success is control. Kenneth Branagh definition-of-successdefinitionssuccess 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 acts on them. Kenneth Branagh mysterious-thingsactorsgoes-on I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. Kenneth Branagh madfiguresthinking The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. Kenneth Branagh elasticityextraordinary 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 importantdirectorspeople It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. Kenneth Branagh mean-peoplemeanpeople For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state. Kenneth Branagh littlespeopleworld When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing. Kenneth Branagh actingdirectorshands I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. Kenneth Branagh insecurepeoplethinking Adults are just children who earn money. Kenneth Branagh adultsfamilychildren It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. Kenneth Branagh contradictoryacceptingpeople I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'" Kenneth Branagh airideasthinking
