Judi Dench Quotes

Work certainly does help fill a void.

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.

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.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.

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.