Jim Broadbent Quotes

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

Jim Broadbent

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Chicago
  • Comfort
  • Sounds

• I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Great
  • Different
  • Father

• Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Ever
  • Inviting
  • Polo

• There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Deep
  • Sweetness

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Perfect
  • Worried

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Worry
  • Less

• As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Questions
  • Politicians
  • Must

• My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is way past anything that I've ever dreamed. I get to work in all these different areas with such extraordinary people on every level.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Look
  • Talking

• You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Great
  • Long
  • Running

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Die
  • Wrong
  • Prove

• 'I will say this once.' Edward turned to the others. 'I’m in command on this mission. Do not, at any time, attempt to wrest control from me. If what you see dismays you, avert your eyes.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Art
  • Knows
  • Records

• Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Time
  • Photography

• The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Money

• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Night

• Americans know the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Values
  • Islam
  • American ideals

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

  

  Jim Broadbent