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" Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right. "

Judi Dench

Director

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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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" 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'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. "

" 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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Desire

Strange

" 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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" 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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Day

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" People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. "

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

" 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. "

" There are very few things that surprise me. "

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