Jim Broadbent Quotes

#1. Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

Eddie Marsan

#2. I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

Domhnall Gleeson

#3. 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

#4. Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

Norman Cousins

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

Jim Broadbent

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

Jim Broadbent

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

Jim Broadbent

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

Jim Broadbent

#9. 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

#10. Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

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#11. 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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#12. You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of people who pigheadly contradict everything I say.

Augustine Of Hippo

#13. I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I'm constantly playing video games every day.

Olivia Holt

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

Jim Broadbent

#15. 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

#16. My grandmother used to say, "Into everyone's life a little rain must fall---rain, assholes, and assorted bullshit .

Jenny Lawson

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

Jim Broadbent

#18. My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.

Ella Eyre

#19. I love a really good storyline.

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#20. I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

Jim Broadbent

#21. 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.

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

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#23. As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carrie Underwood

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

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#25. It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

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

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#27. I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Helena Rutherfurd Ely

#28. 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

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

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#30. The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

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#31. There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Jodi Picoult

#32. I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

David Labrava

#33. I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

Mark McGwire

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

Jim Broadbent

#35. Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Edward Abbey

#36. To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.

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#37. 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.

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

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

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