Sir Kenneth Branagh movie quotes

“I have lived long enough to know what I like. What I dislike, I cannot abide.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“Trust. Truth. I think it's like most opinions: best unexpressed.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Viktor Cherevin

“I have seen the fracture of the human soul. So many broken lives, so much pain and anger, giving way to the poison of deep grief, until one crime became many.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

- Tulio: Miguel, you're talking to a horse!
- Miguel: Yes, that's it Altivo. Find the pry bar!
- Tulio: Yes, "find the pry bar". He doesn't understand "pry bar"! He's a dumb horse, there's no way he could understand.
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel

“Seeing home doesn't help us get there, Captain.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Commander Bolton

“- Bonnie: Apparently his first two books...
- Lee Simon: They were obliterated. I got the 3 esses: self-indulgent, sophomoric, sollipsistic...”
Famke Janssen - Bonnie
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Lee Simon

“I'd rather face waves than dive-bombers.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Commander Bolton

“- Commander Bolton: You can practically see it from here.
- Colonel Winnant: What?
- Commander Bolton: Home.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Commander Bolton
James D'Arcy - Colonel Winnant

“- Commander Bolton: The enemy tanks have stopped.
- Colonel Winnant: Why? Why waste precious tanks when they can pick us off from the air like a fish in a barrel?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Commander Bolton
James D'Arcy - Colonel Winnant

“- James Moon: So you're married too?
- Birkin: Sort of. She went off with another chap. Not for the first time. Can't say I blame her really. Her name is Vinny.
- James Moon: Yes, I thought it might be something like that. As for me, never really met the right woman. Luckily for her.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - James Moon
Colin Firth - Birkin

“It is important to know what words mean, but it is important to remember that a thousand years from now, no matter who holds the power, history will be written in those words.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Reinhard Heydrich

I think the doorbell's heard my wife shout "I'm coming" more than I have these days.
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“You Americans like to think of yourselves as direct, but I wonder if perhaps you are just rude.”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Viktor Cherevin

“- Miguel: I am Miguel.
- Tulio: And I am Tulio.
- Miguel: And they call us Miguel and Tulio!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“Politics is a nasty game. I think soldiering requires the discipline to do the unthinkable and politics requires the skill to get someone else to do the unthinkable for you.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Reinhard Heydrich

“A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound. Love's feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Berowne

“- Sir Laurence Olivier: Marilyn, my darling, you are an angel and I kiss the hem of your garment but why can't you get here on time for the love of fuck?
- Marilyn Monroe: Oh, you have that word in England too?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier
Michelle Williams - Marilyn Monroe

“Do you ever think that if you attack an artist long enough you'll succeed in having him censor himself?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“- Sarah: We can't all have our lives figured out as well as you do.
- Andrew: I didn't say I had my life figured out, I said I had your life figured out, love.”
Alphonsia Emmanuel - Sarah Johnson
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Andrew

“- Tzekel-Kan: You do not want the tribute?
- Miguel: No no, we want tribute, it's just that, um... Tulio, tell him.
- Tulio: The stars are not in position for this tribute!
- Miguel: Like he said! Stars!... Can't do it... Not today.”

Armand Assante - Tzekel-Kan
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“- Louis Howe: Why are you a Democrat?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and I'm a man of the people.
- Louis Howe: You're a Roosevelt. Since when does a Roosevelt know about people?”
David Paymer - Louis Howe
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Don't talk to me as if I were a child!
- Eleanor Roosevelt: How am I supposed to talk to you?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Like I was!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cynthia Nixon - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Viktor Cherevin

“The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh

“My definition of success is control.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh