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 DenchAnything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
Judi DenchPeople seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Judi DenchI 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 DenchThe 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.
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