Kenneth Branagh Quotes

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I don't like to look too far back into the past.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

The best years are behind me.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

I can't really dwell on the past.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

The past is over.

The past is the past and besides it's passed

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

I think we all agree, the past is over.