Top 48 Quotes by Judi Dench

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

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

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

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.