Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it...… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
I felt quite a responsibility when I played Elizabeth I but nobody here remembers her! And then I felt a responsibility when… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly,… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
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… — Judi Dench Copy Share
I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders. — Judi Dench Copy Share
I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day. — Judi Dench Copy Share
Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace… — Judi Dench Copy Share
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench Copy Share
Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be… — Judi Dench Copy Share
In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the… — Judi Dench Copy Share
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will… — Judi Dench Copy Share
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. — Judi Dench Copy Share