Jim Broadbent Quotes

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

It's not my job to rate myself and judge myself. That's up to someone else.

Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.

I don't like being told what you're good at. I'd rather hear what I didn't do.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

You know, I don't ever - I don't really compare myself to receivers.