Judi Dench Quotes & Sayings

“I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.”

“Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.”

“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 I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.”

“Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.”

“It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.”

“Work certainly does help fill a void.”

“My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.”

“There are very few things that surprise me.”

“I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.”

“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.”