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.

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.

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.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.