121 Quotes by 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.

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 out of you.

There’s nothing good about being my age.

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

I don’t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

When we are together, there is nothing we cannot achieve’, which is something Michael used to say.

I trained as a designer, so I’m always terribly keen about what I’m going to look like.

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.

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.