At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

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

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  I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

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

• Kenneth Branagh:

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

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• Kenneth Branagh:

  The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.

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  Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

• Kenneth Branagh:

  My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

• Kenneth Branagh:

  I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.