Quotes By Judi Dench

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.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

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

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

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.

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

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

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.