The only real failure is the failure to try.

- Judi Dench

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.

- Judi Dench

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

- Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

- Judi Dench

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

- Judi Dench

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.

- Judi Dench

Never fall out of love with life

- Judi Dench

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 words coming…

- Judi Dench

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

- Judi Dench