Kenneth Branagh Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.”

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

“The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.”

“There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.”

“If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.”

“I'm basically quite a cheerful person.”

“I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.”

“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.”

“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.”