Judi Dench Quotes

• The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

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• The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

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• Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love – I never got over that.

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• People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar – I can assure you you don’t.

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• My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

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• Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

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• It’s incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

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• It was good to learn so early. They’re not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

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• It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven’t done.

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• It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

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• It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn’t realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

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• In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

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• I’ve figured out what to do so far, but it’s always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting – whoosh! in your face. That’s why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

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• I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it’s too late.

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• 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.

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• I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

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• I trained as a designer, so I’m always terribly keen about what I’m going to look like.

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Judi Dench (49)

Birth:	9th December, 1934
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Author

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