Judi Dench
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English actress and author. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she performed in several of Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Although most of her work during this period was in theatre, she also branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising...
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The thing about not reading scripts and my wanting a director to tell me a story is a risk I need to take. I need that real fear.
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The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
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I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.
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I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
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I don't think about them very much. I think it's good luck if you get them. But I hope it won't affect the film if it doesn't get any. The film stands on its own merits.
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It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
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It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.
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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.
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Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.
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Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.
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I think that there are more films being made with more, you know ... American-English (collaboration) ... It's a pity there's that not that interchange, we can do it so easily,
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... I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.
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They wouldn't talk about that, when we met the girls who are still alive. They wouldn't engage into whether or not there was ever an affair between them. They said they were very close.
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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.