Judi Dench Quotes
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Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.
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I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.
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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 couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you have nobody to interrupt you. I love being part of a company, and telling a story.
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I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
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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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I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.
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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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I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
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People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.
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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
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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.
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I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.
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I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
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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.
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I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.
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I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.
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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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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 was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
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The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
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Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.
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Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.
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I felt quite a responsibility when I played Elizabeth I but nobody here remembers her! And then I felt a responsibility when I played Queen Victoria but not many people remember her.
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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.
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I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.
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This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.
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I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
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Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
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Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.
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