Explore Quotes by Judi Dench

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

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

Work certainly does help fill a void.

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

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

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

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

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.

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