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" People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't. "
Judi Dench
Know
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People
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" It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it. "
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" I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy. "
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" I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. "
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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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" The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. "
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" There are very few things that surprise me. "
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" I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination. "
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" Work certainly does help fill a void. "
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" My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl. "
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" I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late. "
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" I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Work
Need
" Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned. "
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Improve
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" It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed. "
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Departure
Woman
" Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump. "
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You
Work
" 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. "
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Friends
Good
" Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. "
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Everything
Sometimes
Live
" 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. "
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" In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me. "
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Theatre
Contrast
Me
" 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. "
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Theatre
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" I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like. "
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" The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it? "
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" People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. "
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" It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. "
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Plays
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" It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. "
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