Explore Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.

I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.

I've always loved the Bond films.

I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

I would say my voice is actor-neutral.

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan.