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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: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 10
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Sir Kenneth Charles Ken Branagh
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I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.
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Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.
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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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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 guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so it was an imaginative surprise from my Disney family to pull me out of the hat, as it were in Cinderella.
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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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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.
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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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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'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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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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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.
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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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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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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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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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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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