“The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort o...” — Kenneth Branagh Quote

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.

I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

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

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.

There's a childlike quality to Tarzan that's quite beautiful and wonderful, but there's also an intelligence and fierceness that's quite powerful as well.

People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.