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

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Judi Dench
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: December 9
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We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.
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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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The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
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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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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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Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
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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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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
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I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin? And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.
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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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The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
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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've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
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