Kenneth Branagh

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

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

In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.