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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

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Kenneth Branagh
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 10
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Belfast
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Sir Kenneth Charles Ken Branagh
Sir Kenneth Branagh
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The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.
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Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.
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If it's good art, it's good.
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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.
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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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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.
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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.
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My definition of success is control.
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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.
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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.
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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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Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.
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I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.
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I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me
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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.
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I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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