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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/; born 10 December 1960) is a Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter originally from Belfast. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and in 2015 succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).

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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

Carpet, Guilty, Trying, Under

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

Bones, Breathing, Come, Theatre, Want

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.

Actors, Directors, Important, Language, People

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Done, Intense, Passion, People, Tremendous

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

Nice, Somebody, Tea, Want

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

Becomes, Brilliant, Done, Versions

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Hands, Poet, Understand, Way

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

Brit, Brits, Foul

Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's wings. ' She had to have wings and [costume designer] Sandy Powell didn't want wings to begin with but had to be talked around, but that was fun.

Designer, Fun, Powell, Want, Wings

If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.

Cities, City, Exciting, Feels, Littles, Moscow

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Ability, Actors, Quality, Think, Thinking

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.

Ghost, Job, Jobs, Long, Take, Taking

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.

Believe, Culture, Cultures, Russia, Years

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

Love, Mean, Mean People, People, Strange

Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

Opinion, Opinions, Reality, Truth, Unexpressed

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Animation, Imaginative, Magic, Play, Team, Terrific

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

Birth, Coil, Life And Death, Men, Profound, Resisting

I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it that way, would be visible, but she never played for sympathy and I really admired that about her, so she's just there, she just is and uncompromisingly.

Backstory, Broken, Heart, Sympathy, Way, Would Be

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Intellectual, Philosophical, Preparation, Story, Victor

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

Competition, Creative, Good, Natural, Race

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