KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Kenneth Branagh Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

Showing 51-60 of 128 Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'

~Kenneth Branagh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Actor

Born: December 10th, 1960

Links

Find Kenneth Branagh on Amazon

Related Authors

Ian Beattie
A. J. Buckley
Liam Cunningham
Cyril Cusack
Ciaran Hinds
Colm Meaney
Dominic Monaghan
Kristian Nairn
Colin O'Donoghue
Glenn Quinn

Popular Authors

Aeschylus Joseph Campbell Helen Keller Guy Lafleur Thomas Sowell Harriet Tubman Lil Uzi Vert Frank Lloyd Wright

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1938 - Kofi Annan

1947 - Robert Kiyosaki

1732 - David Rittenhouse

1859 - Edmund Husserl

1869 - Harvey Cushing

1888 - Dennis Chavez

1892 - Mary Pickford

1896 - E. Y. Harburg

1903 - Ilka Chase

1911 - Emil Cioran

Birthdays on April 8th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Inspirational Memorial Day Parenting Sports Teacher Time Wisdom