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Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.
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.
I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.
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.
I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre
Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.
There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.
I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.
Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.
I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.
What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
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.
The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once.
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.
Do you know what I feel about Dr. Who's? I feel the same way as I do about the Bonds. I love them all. I love them all! I don't have favorites.
Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.
At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
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.
You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.
I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.
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.'
Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.
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.
Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.
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.
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.
I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me
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.
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
Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.
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.
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.
I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'