Words matter. These are the best Judi Dench Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.
Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are – maybe not all of them. But it’s up to you to put in the amount. It’s up to the director to nag you until you get it right.
I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it’s too late.
I’m very conscious that I’m in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it – how incredibly lucky.
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
Because, you know, I can’t work a bicycle pump.
I trained as a designer, so I’m always terribly keen about what I’m going to look like.
I’d rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
I’ve got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven’t done.
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before – except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal – full of the things you love most.
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.
I can’t read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn’t realize at the time that it would be so noticed.
People seem to have this idea that I’ve always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It’s incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
Since Michael died I think I’ve worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They’re the people who get you through it… It’s no good to be on your own.
Work certainly does help fill a void.
I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it’s like a template; I’ll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I’m all right.
I have no control over a film. I don’t know what will be left on the cutting floor.
