121 Quotes by Judi Dench

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

They wouldn't talk about that, when we met the girls who are still alive. They wouldn't engage into whether or not there was ever an affair between them. They said they were very close.

I'm going to have a bit of a rest and come face-to-face with it all. I think I must do it, and it's time for me to do it now,

... I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

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.

Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

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