Sir Kenneth Branagh quotes
“It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.”
“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”
- From the movie: Love's Labour's Lost
“Other slow arts entirely keep the brain, and therefore, finding barren practisers, scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil; But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, lives not alone immured in the brain but with the motion of all elements courses as swift as thought in every power and gives to every power a double power, above their functions...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: My Week With Marilyn
“I think directing a movie is the best job ever created, but Marilyn has cured me of ever wanting to do it again.”
- From the animation: The Road to El Dorado
- From the movie: Warm Springs
“When I can walk, I'll run.”
- From the movie: My Week With Marilyn
“- Sir Laurence Olivier: She's quite wonderful. No training, no craft, no guile, just pure instinct. Astonishing.
- Colin Clark: You should tell her that.
- Sir Laurence Olivier: Oh, I will. But she won't believe me. That's probably what makes her great, yet it's certainly what makes her so profoundly unhappy.” - From the movie: Wild Wild West
“- Artemus Gordon: I only have one request: That you aim for my heart, my heart which has loved this country so much.
- Dr. Arliss Loveless: Shoot him in the head.
- Artemus Gordon: Damn.” - From the animation: The Road to El Dorado
“- Miguel: Tulio, you worry too much.
- Tulio: No, I worry exactly the right amount. You can never worry too much!” - From the movie: Wild Wild West
“- Rita Escobar: Not to give you a big head, but, I kind of missed you.
- Dr. Arliss Loveless: Isn't that a coincidence? 'Cos, I kinda miss me too!” - From the movie: A Month in the Country
"Oh, most loving and delightful wife". I can never make out if that's grief or relief.
- From the movie: Peter's Friends
“- Peter Morton: Did you bring a surfboard?
- Andrew: No, that's just Carol.” - From the movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Fame is a fickle friend. Celebrity is as celebrity does.”
- From the movie: Conspiracy
“We will not sterilize every Jew and wait for them to die. We will not sterilize every Jew and then exterminate the race. That's farcical. Dead men don't hump, dead women don't get pregnant. Death is the most reliable form of sterilization.”
- From the movie: Peter's Friends
“If there is a God, he takes a lot of long lunches.”
- From the movie: Wild Wild West
“The wrongs will be righted! The past made present! The United - divided!”
- From the movie: Swing Kids
“Comfort is the curse of age.”
- From the movie: Wild Wild West
- From the movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“- Gilderoy Lockhart: Books can be misleading...
- Harry Potter: You wrote them!
- Gilderoy Lockhart: My dear boy, do use your common sense! My books wouldn't have sold half as well if people didn't think I'd done all those things!” - From the movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
- Edna: You look just like my son-in-law.
- Peter McGowan: I am your son-in-law, Edna.
- Edna: My son-in-law's name is Peter.
- Peter McGowan: No. I said your name was Edna. My name is Peter.
- Edna: You just said your name was Edna... Edna's a funny name for a man. Been teased over the years?
- Peter McGowan: Mercilessly. "Pete". - From the movie: Peter's Friends
“- Maggie Chester: I was kind of seeing someone. An author.
- Andrew: And what happened?
- Maggie Chester: He committed suicide.
- Andrew: Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't...
- Maggie Chester: It's alright. Honestly. Really. I didn't really like him very much. I liked him even less after he committed suicide.” - From the movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
“- Peter McGowan: Are you drunk or something?
- Larry: What time is it?
- Peter McGowan: Four.
- Larry: Yep.” - From the movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
“Now I know what a Muppet feels like.”
- From the animation: The Road to El Dorado
- From the movie: Wild Wild West
“- James West: For four long years I've been chasing the animal responsible for the massacre at New Liberty. I hear tell that's you.
- Dr. Arliss Loveless: I am not an animal! I am a visionary, I am a genius, and now I am angry!”
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