Famous Quotes and Sayings attributed to the popular Movie Actress Judi Dench

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
- Judi Dench

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

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
- Judi Dench

I've never seen it, so I don't know. Florence was lovely, of course, and it's a wonderful love story. I did enjoy doing the part, because Maggie Smith and I were old friends from 1958. We both arrived in Florence on the same day and neither of us had any family with us, so we would spend all day together filming and then go out to dinner together, catching up on our Old Vic days. But I didn't enjoy working with James Ivory. I didn't feel that I was on his wavelength and I didn't feel that he wanted me in the film, I have to say that. I remember doing that scene in the middle of the square where she goes mad and attacks the man selling postcards; James went to see the rushes and told me afterwards that everyone had laughed at it, they'd thought it was very funny. "Well done", he said to me. I thought perhaps we'd turned the corner but, when I came to post-sync the film, that scene was missing. When I asked why, he told me that Helena Bonham Carter hadn't been feeling up to it that day, so he'd cut the whole se
quence. I don't know if that was the real reason he cut it - I just don't know.
- Judi Dench

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.
- Judi Dench

Mother was with the Women's Voluntary Service. They'd go down to the station in York and meet troop trains with huge urns of tea and buns, and I remember her coming back often with tins from Americans or Canadians.
- Judi Dench

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

My only regret in life is that I didn't have more children.
- Judi Dench

My only regret is that I didn't have more children.
- Judi Dench

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
- Judi Dench

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar, but I can assure you you don't.
- Judi Dench

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