Kenneth Branagh quote: "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."

Life is surreal and beautiful.
KENNETH BRANAGH

I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
KENNETH BRANAGH

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simp...
KENNETH BRANAGH

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

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH

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

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselve...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Tho...
KENNETH BRANAGH

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
KENNETH BRANAGH

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
KENNETH BRANAGH

You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are...
KENNETH BRANAGH

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps becau...
KENNETH BRANAGH

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
KENNETH BRANAGH

Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think t...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of th...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a da...
KENNETH BRANAGH

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the stor...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associate...
KENNETH BRANAGH

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
KENNETH BRANAGH

My definition of success is control.
KENNETH BRANAGH

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmho...
KENNETH BRANAGH

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an inventio...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about ...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the mo...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to p...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
KENNETH BRANAGH

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gi...
KENNETH BRANAGH

The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
KENNETH BRANAGH

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up w...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for act...
KENNETH BRANAGH

For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being ...
KENNETH BRANAGH

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

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in man...
KENNETH BRANAGH

In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt complete...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
KENNETH BRANAGH

'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confr...
KENNETH BRANAGH

DUCKTASTIC
KENNETH BRANAGH

This is a very exciting departure for me as a filmmaker,
KENNETH BRANAGH

play Woody.
KENNETH BRANAGH

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think people half know it but don't know it, you know? I think when you see the whole thing, there...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst t...
KENNETH BRANAGH

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
KENNETH BRANAGH

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.
KENNETH BRANAGH

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical becau...
KENNETH BRANAGH

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pres...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. S...
KENNETH BRANAGH

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
KENNETH BRANAGH

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. O...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
KENNETH BRANAGH

I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.
KENNETH BRANAGH

Generally, variations in earnings aren't nearly as impactful on glamour growth stocks as are cha...
KENNETH FISHER

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
KENNETH CLARK

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.
KENNETH EDMONDS

Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even i...
KENNETH FISHER

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its ...
KENNETH FISHER

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillatio...
KENNETH FISHER

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs....
KENNETH LANGONE

When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two...
KENNETH LANGONE

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business p...
KENNETH FISHER

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAME

Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and in...
KENNETH LONERGAN

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young ar...
KENNETH REXROTH

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
KENNETH TYNAN

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and s...
KENNETH TYNAN

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama...
KENNETH TYNAN

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.
KENNETH OLSEN

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by...
KENNETH KAUNDA

Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into t...
KENNETH HILDEBRAND

I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.
KENNETH OLSEN

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me...
KENNETH GRAHAME

Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.
KENNETH CORK

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
KENNETH KAUNDA

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which s...
KENNETH TYNAN

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...
KENNETH HILDEBRAND

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
KENNETH AUCHINCLOSS

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common ...
KENNETH TYNAN

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not ...
KENNETH CLARK

Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH BURKE

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
KENNETH BAKER

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest cou...
KENNETH CLARKE

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation a...
KENNETH CHANG

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a...
KENNETH CLARK

Believe me my young friend; there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simp...
KENNETH GRAHAME

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability ...
KENNETH HILDEBRAND

Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here...
KENNETH GRAHAME

At the heart of the debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of...
KENNETH CHANG

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
KENNETH HILDEBRAND

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulf...
KENNETH HILDEBRAND

Nobody in the government is talking. It’s a case of national security.”
“Of course. The ...
KENNETH EADE

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allo...
KENNETH BAKER

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few year...
KENNETH LAY

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
KENNETH KAUNDA

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
KENNETH HARE

There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.
KENNETH PATCHEN

If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French peopl...
KENNETH STILLING

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY

For every star in the sky
Someone is holding his ground.
KENNETH KOCH

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
KENNETH TYNAN

Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspe...
KENNETH LONERGAN

From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917,...
KENNETH FRAMPTON

There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father...
KENNETH CHENAULT

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is...
KENNETH WILLIAMS

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being r...
KENNETH MORE

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to as...
KENNETH CHENAULT

When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. Ther...
KENNETH KAMLER

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
KENNETH NOLAND

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven...
KENNETH KOCH

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many diffe...
KENNETH BURKE

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ...
KENNETH CLARK

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork ...
KENNETH CRANHAM

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart...
KENNETH GRAHAME

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.
KENNETH CHOI

Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have m...
KENNETH FISHER

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
KENNETH KOCH

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 elect...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - s...
KENNETH GRAHAME

Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a ma...
KENNETH FISHER

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.
KENNETH EDMONDS

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I&...
KENNETH KOCH

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have ...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slingi...
KENNETH LANGONE

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director ...
KENNETH LANGONE

The major driver of economics is the equilibrium approach, which has taken various forms over the ye...
KENNETH ARROW

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to...
KENNETH CHENAULT

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, ev...
KENNETH CLARK

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appet...
KENNETH OPPEL

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger...
KENNETH GRAHAME

Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambl...
KENNETH CRANHAM

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all t...
KENNETH GRAHAME

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be...
KENNETH GRAHAME

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
KENNETH GRAHAME

Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years...
KENNETH CHOI

I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you ...
KENNETH CAIN

This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totalit...
KENNETH YASUDA

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
KENNETH TYNAN

I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.”
“Just ...
KENNETH EADE

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in huma...
KENNETH CLARK

Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that ha...
KENNETH CHENAULT

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. A...
KENNETH TYNAN

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
KENNETH BOULDING

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intent...
KENNETH BLANCHARD

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
KENNETH AUCHINCLOSS

This allows the students to receive an education tomorrow if they so choose,
KENNETH ARNDT

I haven't thought about that at all.
KENNETH ARNDT

I almost don't know where to begin.
KENNETH ARNDT

In my opinion, with all due respect to those in attendance, this is a Trojan horse for District 300,
KENNETH ARNDT

But I think the public need to know what this is entailing,
KENNETH ARNDT

The program has changed in the past to meet the demands of the times and must do so again.
KENNETH APFEL

The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first j...
KENNETH APFEL

I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just...
KENNETH APFEL

It's a good financial planning tool, ... We're hoping it will help people understand what Social Sec...
KENNETH APFEL

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, g...
KENNETH ANGER

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
KENNETH ANGER

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
KENNETH ANGER

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. B...
KENNETH ANGER

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may b...
KENNETH ANGER

I've made several films that haven't been shown.
KENNETH ANGER

I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd...
KENNETH ANGER

The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off th...
KENNETH ANGER

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since the...
KENNETH FISHER

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get t...
KENNETH FISHER

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.
KENNETH FISHER

Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst probl...
KENNETH FISHER

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do someth...
KENNETH CLARKE

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidat...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.
KENNETH LAY

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that the...
KENNETH KOCH

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, whi...
KENNETH FISHER

Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It p...
KENNETH FISHER

I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield ...
KENNETH FISHER

Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordi...
KENNETH OPPEL

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening ...
KENNETH TYNAN

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
KENNETH HILDEBRAND

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are ...
KENNETH REXROTH

There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I rea...
KENNETH LONERGAN

You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give s...
KENNETH HAIGH

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borr...
KENNETH DEFFEYES

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and wr...
KENNETH WILLIAMS

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.
KENNETH CRANHAM

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.
KENNETH LAY

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of...
KENNETH CHOI

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engag...
KENNETH CHENAULT

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.
KENNETH FISHER

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
KENNETH LONERGAN

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollyw...
KENNETH CRANHAM

My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet h...
KENNETH FISHER

It is almost like it was the first game of the season. It is tough when you comeback and start playi...
KENNETH THOMPSON

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
KENNETH KOCH

How many ripples the FOMC statement sends across financial markets may essentially depend on whether...
KENNETH BROUX

Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of th...
KENNETH LANGONE

'For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.
KENNETH WONG

There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive me...
KENNETH BACON

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed wi...
KENNETH WILLIAMS

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
KENNETH LAY

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.

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Kenneth Branagh

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.

Kenneth Branagh

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