Sir Kenneth Branagh movie quotes

“It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh

“- Supermodel: You're not afraid of catching germs? And you know, I'm coming down with a cold and everything...
- Lee Simon: From you I'd be willing to catch terminal cancer.”
Charlize Theron - Supermodel
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Lee Simon

“The man had been driven his whole life by hatred of his father. When the mother died, that was a loss. When the father died, the hate had lost his object, then the man's life was empty. Over.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Reinhard Heydrich

“The man I bought it from explained to me that, when a husband gives
it to his wife, they become two halves of the same person.
Nothing can separate them... not even death.”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Roman Strauss

“- Miguel: Any regrets?
- Tulio: You mean besides dying? Yeah. I never had enough... gold.
- Miguel: My regret, besides dying is... our greatest adventure is over before it began, and no one will even remember us.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“The romance of the desert has the power to seduce. I ask you: have you ever loved so much, been so possessed by jealousy, that you might kill?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“ How many great stories are tragedies?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“Ah, love. It is not safe.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“A person in love would do anything.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“You don't negotiate with a tiger. You admire a tiger until he turns on you and you feel its true fucking nature!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sator

“The best way to get started as a writer is to start writing.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“- Henry: I just wanted to ask how you knew.
- William Shakespeare: Knew what?
- Henry: Everything.
- William Shakespeare: My friend, I don't even know how to keep the slugs out of the Hollyhocks.”
Phil Dunster - Henry, the Student
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“- Henry Wriothesley: We have only Johnson now.
- William Shakespeare: Who laughs at me because I speak no Greek and don't know whether Bohemia has a coast.
- Henry Wriothesley: Oh Christ Will, why do you care what he thinks? You wrote King Lear.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Earl of Southampton
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“Do you want to be a writer, and speak to others and for others? Speak first for yourself. Search within. Consider the contents of your own soul. Your humanity. And if you're honest with yourself, then whatever you write, all is true.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“I've lived so long in imaginary worlds, I think I've lost sight of what is real, of what is true.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare

“- Commander Bolton: The tide's turning now.
- Colonel Winnant: How can you tell?
- Commander Bolton: The bodies are coming back.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Commander Bolton
James D'Arcy - Colonel Winnant

“Remember boy, when it comes to women, you're never too old for humiliation.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier

“- Peter McGowan: Maybe that's everything in writing: a catchy title.
- Debra Salhany: So is that why you decided to call your first novel 'How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog'?
- Peter McGowan: Oh, that isn't mere affectation. That's a practical guidebook full of juicy bits on suburban terrorism.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan
Peri Gilpin - Debra Salhany

“- Larry: You're lucky. You got Melanie. There are men who'd die for her.
- Peter McGowan: Yeah, die for her or have her kill you. Either way, you're dead.”
Peter Riegert - Larry
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“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