Judi Dench famous quotes

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Thinking #Giving #Advice

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
-- Judi Dench

#Jobs #Thinking #Should

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
-- Judi Dench

#Meaningful #Work Out #Stuff

There's nothing good about being my age.
-- Judi Dench

#Age

The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
-- Judi Dench

#Needs #World #Environment

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

#Essentials #Goes On #Frightened

The theater is the thing I love doing most.
-- Judi Dench

#Theater

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Theatre #Chance #Film

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
-- Judi Dench

#Bridges #Crosses

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
-- Judi Dench

#Winning #Thinking #People

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Jobs #Grateful #Thinking

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Children #Eye #Simple

We get up in the morning.  We do our best.  Nothing else matters.
-- Judi Dench

#Morning #Matter

The only real failure is the failure to try.
-- Judi Dench

#Real #Trying

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
-- Judi Dench

#Past #Longing

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Thinking #Energy #Use

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Lucky #Actors #Actresses

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
-- Judi Dench

#Cutting #Film

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Meals #Bob #Radio

Never fall out of love with life
-- Judi Dench

#Falling In Love #Fall #Love Life

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Believe #Thinking #Feet

I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.
-- Judi Dench

#Reading #Stories #Scripts

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.
-- Judi Dench

#People #Missing #Stage

I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.
-- Judi Dench

#Limits #Limitation

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
-- Judi Dench

#Truth #Real #Reality

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Eggs #Tea #Yorkshire

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
-- Judi Dench

#Girl #Husband #My Husband

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Design #Theatre #Want

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
-- Judi Dench

#Elderly #People #Welcome

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
-- Judi Dench

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Get Better #Down And #Be Kind

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
-- Judi Dench

#Ideas #People #Ambitious

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
-- Judi Dench

#Sometimes #Nudity #Just Live

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
-- Judi Dench

#Difficulty #Esteem #Expected

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Long #Energy #Goes On

I need to learn every day.
-- Judi Dench

#Needs

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
-- Judi Dench

#Home #Thinking #Rotten

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

#Theatre #Attractive #Contrast

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Mind #Diaries #Done

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
-- Judi Dench

#Too Late #Nicholson

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Directors #Ingredients

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.
-- Judi Dench

#News #Proud #Wonderful

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.
-- Judi Dench

#Love Is #Stories #Company

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
-- Judi Dench

#Looks #Designer

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Work Out #Needs #Looks

I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
-- Judi Dench

#Hate #Thinking #People

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
-- Judi Dench

#Eye #Scripts #Trouble

I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.
-- Judi Dench

Work certainly does help fill a void.
-- Judi Dench

#Doe #Void #Helping

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Men #Ice #Water

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
-- Judi Dench

#Designer #Young #Wanted

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
-- Judi Dench

#Scripts #Firsts #Lord

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
-- Judi Dench

#Want #Great Things #Expected

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
-- Judi Dench

#Play #Done

There are very few things that surprise me.
-- Judi Dench

#Surprise #Surprise Me

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.
-- Judi Dench

#Benefits #Fool #Language