Quotes By Judi Dench

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

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 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 have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

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

Work certainly does help fill a void.

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

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

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

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.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?