Jim Broadbent famous quotes

05-12-2025

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

#Giving #Age #Aging
To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.
-- Jim Broadbent

#Delight #Stressful #Blockbuster
It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.
-- Jim Broadbent

#Acting #Sound #Ridiculous
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
Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.
-- Jim Broadbent

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

#Different #Culture #Film
The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
-- Jim Broadbent

#Would Be #World
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
-- Jim Broadbent

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

#Pale #Angst
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

#Hate #Hard Times #Ordinary
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
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
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 #Lines
In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.
-- Jim Broadbent

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

#Helping #Film #Old English
I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.
-- Jim Broadbent

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

#People #Might #Just Smile
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
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 #Different #Done
I haven't got a writer's discipline.
-- Jim Broadbent

#Discipline
I love a really good storyline.
-- Jim Broadbent
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
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
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
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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