Jim Broadbent Quotes

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

I value my friends.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

I was everybody's little boyfriend when I was younger. It's all good. It's just love, you know. I'll take the love. Give it to me.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.

I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.

There's something about a toy to a child where the relationship is real, where the kid is playing, and it's just really amazing.