Jim Broadbent Quotes

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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• Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • City
  • Always
  • Early

• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • May
  • Man

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Myself
  • See
  • Celebrity

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Beauty
  • Mountain

• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Cat

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Important
  • Moral

• It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Why

• There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Help
  • Past
  • Legacy

• O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Men
  • Light
  • Son

• It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Family
  • Achieve
  • Just

• Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

  

  David Hanson
  • Character
  • Plant
  • Empathy

• 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
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