A biography for Jim Broadbenthasn’t been written yet.
“Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.”
“It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.”
“In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.”
“An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'”
“I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.”
“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.”
“I haven't got a writer's discipline.”
“The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.”
“It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.”
“We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.”
“Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.”
“I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.”
“Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.”
“People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.”
“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.”