Judi Dench Quotes
33 Judi Dench quotes:
"I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day."
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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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"Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump."
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"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."
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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 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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"the glamorous life!"
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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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"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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"It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare."
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"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination."
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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"I'm going to have a bit of a rest and come face-to-face with it all. I think I must do it, and it's time for me to do it now,"
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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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"I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor."
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"I love being part of a company, and telling a story."
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"In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me."
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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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"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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"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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