Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Judi Dench
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Judi Dench.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
Work certainly does help fill a void.
The theater is the thing I love doing most.
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
There are very few things that surprise me.
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.
It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.
I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.
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.
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 Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
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.
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.
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.
I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
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.
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.
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 would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
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.
I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
I need to learn every day.
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 love being part of a company, and telling a story.
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
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.
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.
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.
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.
I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
Never fall out of love with life
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it
The only real failure is the failure to try.
One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.
There's nothing good about being my age.
I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.
Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.
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