Jim Broadbent Quotes

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

Lost, Her, Artist

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

Character, Done, Different

I haven't got a writer's discipline.
Jim Broadbent

Discipline, Writer

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.
Jim Broadbent

Life, Time, Hate

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

Best, Fun, Understand

I love a really good storyline.
Jim Broadbent

Love, Good, Storyline

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

Life, Great, Sad

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

Small, Liberal, Coalition

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, Sometimes, Top

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

Help, Others, Receiving

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

Live, Real, Person

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

Live, Fact, London

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, End, Everything

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

Politics, Good, Today

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

Acting, Talk, Start

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

Funny, Help, Old

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, Career, Done

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

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

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

Different, Enjoy, Whatever

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
Jim Broadbent

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

Book, Black, Missed

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

Someone, Human, Become

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

Else, Angst, Pale

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: May 24, 1949

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