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 More Quotes by Kenneth Branagh More Quotes From Kenneth Branagh Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh laugh enjoy-life smile enjoy life I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world. Kenneth Branagh good naughty freedom world 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 grateful family health life 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 look you painting car 'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.' Kenneth Branagh hero relationship father death How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs? Kenneth Branagh human-being story you ignorance I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later. Kenneth Branagh i-am looking looking-forward hope 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 think situation villain dance I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you. Kenneth Branagh choose think you past I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.' Kenneth Branagh working good good-times remember The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office. Kenneth Branagh story know office work Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. Kenneth Branagh live look fairy-tale chance I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels. Kenneth Branagh think always fairy people Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan. Kenneth Branagh you always lucky life I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way. Kenneth Branagh best being know way What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus. Kenneth Branagh great you work opportunity I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. Kenneth Branagh labour lost love funny Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. Kenneth Branagh sense because singing poetry
