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Judi Dench
English
Actress
About the author
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Society
#Nudity
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#First
#Theater
The theater is the thing I love doing most.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Love
#Theater
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Husband
The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
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,
English
Actress
#Time
#Woman
#Departure
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,
English
Actress
#Right
#Work
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.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Family
#Tea
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
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,
English
Actress
#Feet
#Business
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Job
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,
English
Actress
#Work
#Man
#Waiting
#Water
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,
English
Actress
#Right
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#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,
English
Actress
#Love
#Job
#Fact
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Shakespeare
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,
English
Actress
It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Shakespeare
#Actors
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.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Years
#First
I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Work
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Control
#Theatre
#Contrast
Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Work
I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Day
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,
English
Actress
#Act
#Advice
I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Film
#Will
#Control
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,
English
Actress
#Actors
I love being part of a company, and telling a story.
Judi Dench,
English
Actress
#Love
#Being
#Company
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,
English
Actress
#People
#Friends
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,
English
Actress
#Love
#Being