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...
needs
I need to learn every day.
home thinking rotten
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
firsts scripts lord
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
long goes-on want
I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.
void doe helping
Work certainly does help fill a void.
get-better be-kind down-and
It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
jobs grateful thinking
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.
reading stories scripts
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.
design theatre want
I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.
moving-on letting-go falling-in-love
Never fall out of love with life
lucky actors actresses
I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.
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.