Kenneth Branagh Quotes

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

Actors are a race.

I studied dramatics under him [General Douglas MacArthur] for twelve years.

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I went to drama school in Scotland.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I love working with great actors.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I come from a traditional theater background.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.