Kenneth Branagh Quotes

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

I know that some people who move into film lose their nerve for the stage.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I just like to act.

I love working with great actors.

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I was more interested in directing. There's more to it than helping actors get round a stage: it's a wonderful way of telling stories.

Acting was always in the back of my head.

I get very excited when I get a chance to work with actors who are as passionate as I am.

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

When I was 16, we moved to live in Stratford-Upon-Avon. That was the year of Paul Scofield's 'Lear.' I think he is still widely perceived as the only actor who has got his flag at the top of the mountain.

I've enjoyed lots of productions, and it's always been down to the actors I've been working with.

I'm an actor. It's my job.