Jim Broadbent Quotes
I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my interest in acting and movies and everything.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps.
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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
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I would love to do a British period drama.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
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I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'
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I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my interest in acting and movies and everything.
