Quotes from Jim Broadbent


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    I haven't got a writer's discipline.

    Discipline | Writer


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

    Pale | Angst | Becomes


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

    Black | Missed


    The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

    Rouge


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

    Enjoy | Seeing | Cultures


    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.

    Selfish | Career | Anyone


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

    Funny | Help | English


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

    Clean | Hollywood | Lines


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

    London


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

    Reputation | Dead | Produce


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

    Small | Liberal | Coalition


    I love a really good storyline.

    Love | Good | Storyline


    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.

    Selfish | Top | Capable


    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.

    Looking | Genre | Sort


    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.

    Lost | Artist | Polish


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

    Life | Sad | Great


    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.

    Life | Time | Hate


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

    Might


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

    Start | Acting | Talk


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

    Help | Others | Receiving


       

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