Quote

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

Judi Dench

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Judi Dench
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: December 9
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
Jórvík
Dame Judi Dench
Judith Olivia Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Dench
Frightened
Essential
Essentials
Otherwise
Would

More quotes by Judi Dench

Image
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
Judi Dench
Image
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.
Judi Dench
Image
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.
Judi Dench
Image
I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.
Judi Dench
Image
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
Judi Dench
Image
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.
Judi Dench
Image
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
Judi Dench
Image
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
Judi Dench
Image
The only real failure is the failure to try.
Judi Dench
Image
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.
Judi Dench
Image
I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
Judi Dench
Image
I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
Judi Dench
Image
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
Judi Dench
Image
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
Judi Dench
Image
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
Judi Dench
Image
Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.
Judi Dench
Image
The theater is the thing I love doing most.
Judi Dench
Image
It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
Judi Dench
Image
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.
Judi Dench
Image
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
Judi Dench