Top 24 Quotes by Jim Broadbent

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

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

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.

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

I love a really good storyline.

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

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

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

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

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.