Jim Broadbent Quotes

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

I don't believe in happy endings.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.

Maybe it would have been better if neither of us had been born.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

I often liken my love life to the pathetic fallacy found in a Bronte novel: a long and winding road tented by storm clouds and rain. Kidding.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

People think you should be happy all the time but you can't.

Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

Despite the apparent trappings of modest success in television and so on, I have always been an uneasy person. I can't change that. I can't change that part of my psychological makeup.

Not every day is a good day for me.

If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.

Sometimes I feel I'm being animated, but it comes off differently. Unfortunately, I was cursed with these sleepy eyes.