Jim Broadbent

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.