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Jim Broadbent Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1949

Topics

Character End Hollywood Clean Up

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

Me Performance Thinking Interesting

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

Children Believe Problem Want Who

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

Past New York Late New I Came Came

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Change Wisdom Strong Situation Out

Definitely inspired to keep on grinding, keep on going, keep on doing what we do every single year: Win games and put up numbers.

Win Doing Year Numbers Games Single

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Politics Information Must Equilibrium

There is an overarching comedy community, and then there are little comedy community pockets, almost like the way L.A. is structured. You have this grand scope of what Los Angeles is, but within that, there are all of these multi-functioning cities and neighborhoods.

Community Comedy You Los Angeles Way

We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day.

Work Health Great Day People Hurt

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

Writing Start Believe Problem Choice

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

Fight School Me Never Always Kids

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Alone History Morality Three Never

The blockchain start-ups that have done ICOs are just at the beginning of something. Ask me how they are doing in a year or two years from now. I know for a fact it won't be any different from the statistics of all start-ups: 80% of them will not make it.

William Mougayar

Beginning Me Doing Year Statistics

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