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Jim Broadbent [1949-0] American

Rank: 108
Actor

James "Jim" Broadbent is an English actor and voice artist.
Born in Lincolnshire to parents who were both amateur actors, he was educated at Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading and briefly attended art college before transferring to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1972.

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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.		101
I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.		102
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.		103
In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.		104
People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.	Smile	105
It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.		106
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.		107
Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.		108
I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.		109
I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.	Sad	110
The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.		111
It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.		112
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.		113
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.		114
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.		115
I haven't got a writer's discipline.		116
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.		117
I love a really good storyline.		118
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.		119
I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.		120
If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.		121
You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.		122
I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.		123
In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.		124

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