Best Judi Dench Quotes & Sayings

I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be. — Judi Dench

I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing. — Kate Winslet

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

I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get. — Kate O'Mara

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

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

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

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

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

We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena. — 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

When we are together, there is nothing we cannot achieve', which is something Michael used to say. — Judi Dench

I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

Work certainly does help fill a void. — Judi Dench

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

I worked with Judi Dench in Cranford. She's not at all starry, she's very easy and funny to be around, but I had such an enormous respect and regard for her before I met her that I was quite starstruck. — Martin Shaw

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

I'm always fearful. ... Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol. — Judi Dench

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

Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump. — 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

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

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

I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done. — Joanna Lumley

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. — 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. — 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

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench

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

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