As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.
Interpretation
Disrespect can ignite a fire to prove oneself capable.
This quote by Kenneth Branagh emphasizes that negative reinforcement, particularly from those we do not respect, can serve as a powerful motivator to achieve our goals. It suggests that instead of being discouraged by criticism, one can use it as fuel to strive harder for success and self-affirmation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
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. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
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.
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.
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.
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
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