Sir Kenneth Branagh movie quotes

“It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh

“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh

“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)
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Berowne

“I think directing a movie is the best job ever created, but Marilyn has cured me of ever wanting to do it again.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier

“- Tulio: What's happening here?
- Miguel: We're both in barrels. That's the extent of my knowledge.”
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel

“When I can walk, I'll run.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“- 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.”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier
Eddie Redmayne - Colin Clark

“- 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.”

Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“- Miguel: Tulio, you worry too much.
- Tulio: No, I worry exactly the right amount. You can never worry too much!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“- 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!”
Salma Hayek - Rita Escobar
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

"Oh, most loving and delightful wife". I can never make out if that's grief or relief.
Sir Kenneth Branagh - James Moon

“- Peter Morton: Did you bring a surfboard?
- Andrew: No, that's just Carol.”
Stephen Fry - Peter Morton
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Andrew

“Fame is a fickle friend. Celebrity is as celebrity does.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Gilderoy Lockhart

“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.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Reinhard Heydrich

“If there is a God, he takes a lot of long lunches.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Andrew

“The wrongs will be righted! The past made present! The United - divided!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“Comfort is the curse of age.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Herr Knopp, Gestapo

“Since the beginning of written history a nation's power has been measured by the size of its standing army.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“- 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!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Gilderoy Lockhart
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter

- 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".
Lynn Redgrave - Edna
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“- 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.”
Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Andrew

“- Peter McGowan: Are you drunk or something?
- Larry: What time is it?
- Peter McGowan: Four.
- Larry: Yep.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan
Peter Riegert - Larry

“Now I know what a Muppet feels like.”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“- Tulio: Any last words?
- Miguel: I will cut you to ribbons!
- Tulio: Fool! Such mediocrity! Let your sword do the talking!
- Miguel: I will, it will be loquacious to a fault!”
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel

“- 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!”
Will Smith - James West
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless