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Judi Dench Inspirational Quotes (40)

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I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.
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Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
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People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
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I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
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Work certainly does help fill a void.
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I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
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The theater is the thing I love doing most.
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Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.
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I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.
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I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it
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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 was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
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I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.
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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.
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The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
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Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.
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I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
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Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
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I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.
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I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
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It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
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The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
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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.
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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.
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I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
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