Jim Broadbent Quotes
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If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.
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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.
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I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.
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Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.
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I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.
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I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.
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It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.
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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.
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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.
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You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.
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We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.
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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.
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
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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.
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The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
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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.
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People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.
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I love a really good storyline.
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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.
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In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.
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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.
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We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
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The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
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In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
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I haven't got a writer's discipline.
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Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.
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I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
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To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.
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