Jim Broadbent Quotes

• We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

  Jim Broadbent

  Giving, Age, Aging

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• I love a really good storyline.

  Jim Broadbent

  Storyline

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• In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

  Jim Broadbent

  Character, Hollywood Films, Lines

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• Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

  Jim Broadbent

  Ideas, People, Might

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• When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

  Jim Broadbent

  Research, Sympathetic, Turns

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• It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

  Jim Broadbent

  Acting, Sound, Ridiculous

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• I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

  Jim Broadbent

  Helping Others, Thinking, Receiving

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• I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

  Jim Broadbent

  Selfish, Thinking, Sometimes

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• In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

  Jim Broadbent

  Trying, Would Be, Today

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• The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

  Jim Broadbent

  Different, Culture, Film

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• People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.

  Jim Broadbent

  People, Might, Just Smile

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• I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.

  Jim Broadbent

  Love, Strength, Confidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

  Jim Broadbent

  Pale, Angst

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.

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• In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

  Jim Broadbent

  London, Facts

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• If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

  Jim Broadbent

  Real, Responsibility, Way

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.

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• I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

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  Hate, Hard Times, Ordinary

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• We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

  Jim Broadbent

  Book, Opportunity, Black

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• Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

  Jim Broadbent

  Selfish, Thinking, Careers

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• The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

  Jim Broadbent

  Would Be, World, Rouge

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• I haven't got a writer's discipline.

  Jim Broadbent

  Discipline, Havens

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• I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

  Jim Broadbent

  Fans, Sad Day, Resigned

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• Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

  Jim Broadbent

  Sweet, Jesus, War

  "Fictional character: William 'Boss' Tweed". "Gangs of New York", m.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

  Jim Broadbent

  Coalitions

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• A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

  Jim Broadbent

  Artist, Oscars, Lost

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• I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

  Jim Broadbent

  Fun, People, Culture

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