Jim Broadbent movie quotes

“We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.”
Jim Broadbent - Dean Charles Stanforth

“- 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)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.”

Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.”
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“My body aged quickly but for my heart it took more time.”
Jim Broadbent - Mr Gruber

“In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.”
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“Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.”
Jim Broadbent

“Gentlemen you are the fliers of the future! The far future!”

Jim Broadbent - Sergeant

“Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.”
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“Mum's throwing a Christmas party slash political rally. It's like the G8 summit with Scotch eggs.”
Jim Broadbent - Dad

“I barely recognize this country anymore. The government's got us seeing Communists in our soup.”

Jim Broadbent - Dean Charles Stanforth

“- Zidler: She said you make her feel like a virgin.
- The Duke: Virgin?
- Zidler: You know, touched for the very first time.”

Jim Broadbent - Harold Zidler
Richard Roxburgh - The Duke

“Homesickness is like most sicknesses. It will pass.”
Jim Broadbent - Father Flood

“There's something inherently disappointing about success.”
Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert

“- Dad: I'm not sure if you're mine, or that nice Lieutenant Colonel's who ran the bowls club.
- Bridget Jones: Uhm.
- Dad: Only joking. You've got my feet. I've always had very dainty feet.”
Jim Broadbent - Dad
Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones

“- 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)
Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert
Allan Corduner - Arthur Sullivan

“- 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.”

Jim Broadbent - Col
Stephen Rea - Fergus

“Your performances were, on the whole, promising, which is more than can be said, alas, for that of the sliding doors. One of which might have thought it was in Japan, but the other was apparently stubbornly laboring under the misapprehension that it was on holiday in Yorkshire.”

Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert

“We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.”
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“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.”
Jim Broadbent

“I suppose that's the way life goes on. You have something now and then it suddenly goes... Poof!”

Jim Broadbent - Professor Horace Slughorn

“You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.”
Jim Broadbent

“The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.”
Jim Broadbent

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

“- 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?”
Jim Broadbent - Col
Stephen Rea - Fergus