197 Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

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

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet’s whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor’s is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

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

Actually I think ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

I’m basically quite a cheerful person.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don’t understand.

If it’s good art, it’s good.

If you’ve done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I’ve probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it’ll take some time to recover from it.