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" 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. "

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" Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit. "

Judi Dench

Desire

Strange

" 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. "

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

Judi Dench

Theatre

Contrast

" It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. "

" 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. "

" I love being part of a company, and telling a story. "

" I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like. "

" 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. "

" Work certainly does help fill a void. "

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

" It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it. "

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

Judi Dench

Day

I Am

" 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 day, and you have no control over it at all. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to be a set designer when I was young. "

" I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do. "

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

" 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've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind. "

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

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

" Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage. "

" 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. "

" I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky. "

" I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. "

" There are very few things that surprise me. "

Judi Dench

Surprise

Few

" 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. "