Jim Broadbent Quotes

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• We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.
• It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
• I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.
• People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.
• 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.
• 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…
• I haven't got a writer's discipline.
• I love a really good storyline.
• I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.
• 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.
• I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
• If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.
• In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.
• In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
• It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.
• 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…
• Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.
• The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
• The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
• We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

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