Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

- Jim Broadbent

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 haven't got a writer's discipline.

- Jim Broadbent

I love a really good storyline.

- Jim Broadbent

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

- Jim Broadbent

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

- Jim Broadbent

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

- Jim Broadbent

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

- Jim Broadbent

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…

- Jim Broadbent