Dench Quotes

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

Never fall out of love with life ~ Judi Dench

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

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. ~ Judi Dench

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

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

Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview that girl a lot - but sometimes, every once in a while, you get to interview a legend. I have interviewed some amazingly iconic people, including Michelle Obama, Oprah, Sidney Poitier and Judy Dench. These people are legit icons. ~ Ross Mathews

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

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part! ~ Kelly Brook

The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you ... " And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link. ~ Judi Dench

Alan Bennett and Judi Dench are amazingly talented people who don't let you down when you meet them. ~ Alan Titchmarsh

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

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

I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were. ~ Cate Blanchett

Judi Dench is incredible. She takes acting to another level. She is a thorough professional. She is always smiling and cheerful. She painstakingly rehearses with co-stars and allows you to be natural. ~ Tena Desae

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter. ~ Dawn French

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much. ~ Judy Parfitt

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

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. ~ Judi Dench

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench. ~ Janet McTeer

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

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

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

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

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

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft. ~ Judi Dench

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

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

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

A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else. ~ Catherine Lowell

God, all those months of seeing Kelsey's pictures and hearing about her travels, and I had been raging with jealousy. And now it was my turn.
I wanted to mind the gap at the tube station and eat fish and chips and try to make the Queen's guards laugh. I wanted to see Big Ben and the Globe and the London Bridge and Dame Judi Dench. Or Maggie Smith. Or Alan Rickman. Or Sir Ian McKellen. Or anybody famous and British, really.
Holy crap. This was really happening.
And I wasn't just a tourist. I was visiting with someone who'd grown up in the city. With my fiancé.
Take that, world. ~ Cora Carmack

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders. ~ Judi Dench

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

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. ~ Judi Dench

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

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

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster. ~ Amy Adams

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

I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring. ~ Zoe Tapper

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

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. ~ Judi Dench

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

I need to learn every day. ~ Judi Dench

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

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. ~ Judi Dench

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

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

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

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. ~ Judi Dench

I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs. ~ Judi Dench

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story ... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story. ~ Judi Dench

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. ~ Judi Dench

I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them. ~ Jennifer Nettles

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

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

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

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. ~ Alan Cumming

'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else. ~ Claire Tomalin