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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.
Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: December 10
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Sir Kenneth Charles Ken Branagh
Sir Kenneth Branagh
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Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.
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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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Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.
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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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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 no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit recently, and in Russia, they completely believe they own this tale. And in Italy, they feel it absolutely is part of who they are. There is a timeless web to it.
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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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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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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 think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
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