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...
void doe helping
Work certainly does help fill a void.
moving-on letting-go falling-in-love
Never fall out of love with life
looks designer
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
work-out way needs
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.
theatre attractive contrast
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
difficulty esteem expected
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
designer young wanted
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
degeneration
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
too-late before-its-too-late late
I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
experience-yourself use crafts
Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.
writing long stories
I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.
roots coming-out approach
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.
colleagues died english-actress good michael people since worked
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.
bicycle english-actress work
Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.