Jim Broadbent movie quotes

View Quote [in regard to returning to Hogwarts] All right, I'll do it! But I want Professor Merrythought's old office, not the water closet I had before. And I expect a raise, these are mad times we live in. MAD!

View Quote [Slughorn pursues Harry, under the influence of Felix Felicis, across the grounds.]
Slughorn: Harry, I must insist you accompany me back to the castle immediately!
Harry: That would be counter-productive, sir!
Slughorn: What makes you say that?
Harry: No idea.

View Quote [Telling Harry the story of his deceased fish] It was a student who gave me Francis. One spring afternoon I discovered a bowl on my desk with just a few inches of clear water in it. And floating on the surface was a flower petal. As I watched, it sank. Just before it reached the bottom, it was transformed into a wee fish. It was beautiful magic, wondrous to behold. The flower petal had come from a lily. Your mother. The day I came downstairs, the day the bowl was empty, was the day your mother... I know why you're here, but I can't help you. It would ruin me.

View Quote A magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment. It will be: Spectacular Spectacular.

View Quote We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love.

View Quote Everything's going so well!

View Quote And with this draft to develop new applications for copper wire, Dr Ramsey invented this. [displays a Slinky made of copper, then starts speaking with a dark voice] Needless to say, the Royal Academy of Science declared this crackpot "mentally incompetent" and he was duly dispatched to a lunatic asylum.

View Quote We live in a golden age, Fogg. Everything worth discovering has been discovered. Yet ridiculous dreamers like you insist on a past filled with "dinosaurs" and "evolution", and on a future filled with "motorized vehicles", "radio waves" and "flying machines".

View Quote What's the point in hiring a corrupt inspector if he can't even abuse the law properly?!

View Quote What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely?

View Quote I was for the briefest of moments... Cinderella and all memory of past misfortune receded in the rearview mirror of my dream come true.

View Quote While my extensive experience as an editor has led me to a disdain for flashbacks and flash forwards and all such tricksy gimmicks I believe that if you, dear Reader, can extend your patience for just a moment, you will find that there is a Method to this tale of Madness.

View Quote You must have misheard me. I said I had a melody, not a malady!

View Quote Composing is a crusade. Sometimes you slay the dragon. Sometimes it slays you.

View Quote Vyvyan Ayrs: That's it! The music from my dream.
Robert Frobisher: I call it the "Cloud Atlas Sextet".

View Quote Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.

View Quote [as an anti-draft riot takes place] Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

View Quote The appearance of law must be upheld, especially when it's being broken.

View Quote (regretably) I'm sorry. I had no choice, (suddenly excited) but look! It's Basta!

View Quote [To Mortola] You are my crude scribblings, Magpie.

View Quote This must be what it feels like to give birth!

View Quote Inspector Frank Butterman: Your predecessor assumed rural policing was easy. Ended up having a nervous breakdown, and Sergeant Popwell was an exceptional officer. Truly exceptional. But he had one thing you haven't got.
Nicholas Angel: What's that, sir?
Inspector Frank Butterman: [jovially] A GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!

View Quote Inspector Frank Butterman: There's a reason we tolerate a few of the younglings at the pub.

View Quote Inspector Frank Butterman: [trying to convince the Sandford Police to arrest Angel] You aren't seriously going to believe this man, are you? HE ISN'T EVEN FROM ROUND HERE!!!

View Quote Dr. Lewis Jaffe: Just me and my little knife! Snip snip - slice slice... can you believe it?

View Quote Dr. Lewis Jaffe: Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass. No hairline.

View Quote Dr. Lewis Jaffe: Can you believe it? Just me and my little knife. Snip, snip, slice, slice...But this is just the beginning...You've seen her with her clothes off. Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass. No hairlines.

View Quote Peter: You're not saying you believe her?
Professor Kirke: What, and you don't?
Susan: Of course not. I mean, logically, it's impossible.
Professor Kirke: What do they teach in schools these days?

View Quote Susan: It's our sister, Lucy.
Professor Kirke: The weeping girl.
Susan: Yes, sir. She's upset.
Professor Kirke: Hence the weeping.
Peter: It's nothing. We can handle it.
Professor Kirke: Oh, I can see that.

View Quote Professor Kirke: [walking into the room as the children fall out of the wardrobe] What were you all doing in the wardrobe?
Peter: You wouldn't believe us if we told you, sir.
Professor Kirke: [tosses cricket ball to Peter] Try me!
Aslan "To the great western wood I give king Edmund The Just" Peter Pevensie "When are you gonna learn to grow up?" Edmund Pevensie Shut up you think your dad but your not"(stroms off)

View Quote Dil: He's still looking, Col.
Col: Persistent.
Dil: Good thing in a man.
Col: An excellent quality.
Dil: Maybe he wants something.
Col: I expect he does.
Dil: Ask him!
Col: Ask him yourself!

View Quote Fergus: So who's he?
Col: He's what she should run a mile away from.
Fergus: Then why doesn't she?
Col: Who knows the secrets of the human heart?

View Quote Col: You could always make it up to her. When a girl runs out like that, she generally wants to be followed.
Fergus: She's not a girl, Col.
Col: Whatever you say.
Fergus: Do they know?
Dil: Know what, honey?
Fergus: Know what I didn't know? And don't call me that.
Dil: Can't help it! A girl has her feelings.
Fergus: Thing is, Dil, you're not a girl.
Dil: Details, baby, details.
Fergus: So they do know?
Dil: Alright, they do.
Fergus: Don't. I should've known, shouldn't I?
Dil: Probably.
Fergus: Kind of wish I didn't.
Dil: You can always pretend.
Fergus: That's true. Your soldier knew, didn't he?
Dil: Absolutely.

View Quote Mark my words. The reign of King Conroy is coming!

View Quote How can my little niece and nephew have grown up when I wasn't looking?

View Quote [to his dinner guests] I thank you for your good wishes on my birthday. It has been a long life and an interesting one. But I shall be content with only a short while more. Just enough to dispense with any thought of a Regency. So that I may pass the Royal Authority directly to that young lady. And not to the hands of a person now near me who is surrounded by evil advisers and who cannot act with propriety in the station in which she's been placed! I have been insulted! Grossly and continually insulted! She has kept her daughter, my brother's child, from my Court! But from now on, I'll have her know that I am King! And I will not be flouted or disobeyed by her or by that jackanapes she keeps about her!