Top 127 Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

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?'

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.

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

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

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 live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.