Jim Broadbent quotes
“We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.”
- From the movie: Gangs of New York
“- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: I don't see no Americans. I see trespassers, Irish harps. Do a job for a nickel what a nigger does for a dime and a white man used to get a quarter for. What have they done? Name one thing they've contributed.
- William 'Boss' Tweed: Votes.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: Votes, you say? They vote how the archbishop...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Gangs of New York
“Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.”
“It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.”
“In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.”
“Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.”
- From the movie: Valiant
“Gentlemen you are the fliers of the future! The far future!”
- From the movie: Gangs of New York
“Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.”
- From the movie: Bridget Jones's Baby
“Mum's throwing a Christmas party slash political rally. It's like the G8 summit with Scotch eggs.”
“I barely recognize this country anymore. The government's got us seeing Communists in our soup.”
- From the movie: Moulin Rouge!
- From the movie: Brooklyn
“Homesickness is like most sicknesses. It will pass.”
- From the movie: Topsy-Turvy
“There's something inherently disappointing about success.”
- From the movie: Bridget Jones's Baby
- From the movie: Topsy-Turvy
“- William Schwenck Gilbert: Every theatrical performance is a contrivance by its very nature.
- Arthur Sullivan: Yes, but this piece consists entirely of an artificial and implausible situation.
- William Schwenck Gilbert: If you wish to write a grand opera about a prostitute, dying of consumption in a garret, I suggest you contact Mr. Ibsen in...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Crying Game
“- Col: You could always make it up to her. When a girl runs out like that, she generally wants to be followed.
- Fergus: She's not a girl, Col.
- Col: Whatever you say.” - From the movie: Topsy-Turvy
- La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.”
- La trovi in Relationships in Hollywood
“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.”
- From the movie: Paddington
“My body aged quickly but for my heart it took more time.”
- From the movie: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I suppose that's the way life goes on. You have something now and then it suddenly goes... Poof!”
“You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.”
“The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.”
“I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.”
- From the movie: The Crying Game
“- Col: He's what she should run a mile away from.
- Fergus: Then why doesn't she?
- Col: Who knows the secrets of the human heart?”
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