Jim Broadbent

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

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

— Jim Broadbent

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

— Jim Broadbent

I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate…

— Jim Broadbent

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

— Jim Broadbent

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

— Jim Broadbent

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

— Jim Broadbent

Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out…

— Jim Broadbent

I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and…

— Jim Broadbent

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

It's so easy as a child to identify with 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' The humour doesn't talk down at you. It's a very grown up…

— Jim Broadbent

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

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

— Jim Broadbent

An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'

— Jim Broadbent

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image.…

— Jim Broadbent

Even for people who live in the country, there is a trepidation now about going outside to play. But it never occurred…

— Jim Broadbent

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying…

— Jim Broadbent

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a…

— Jim Broadbent

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the…

— Jim Broadbent

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

— Jim Broadbent

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic…

— Jim Broadbent

I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my…

— Jim Broadbent

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

— Jim Broadbent

I love a really good storyline.

— Jim Broadbent