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Judi Dench is a highly acclaimed British film actress, celebrated for her diverse performances in both film and theater. Born on December 9, 1934, she has had a long and esteemed career, earning numerous awards and honors over the years.

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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“There's magic to be mined in mistakes.”

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“There's nothing good about being my age.”

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“This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.”

Has Beens Wonderful Proud Involved News Wonderful Experience

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“One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.”

Wells Language Fool Benefits Educated Mature Not Afraid No Fear Have No Fear Well Educated Expletives Power Of Language Educated Women

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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”

Knows Mean I Can Picks Bones

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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.”

Seems Interesting Careers Supposed To Be

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“I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.”

Long Felt Responsibility Died Heavy Shoulders Irises

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“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.”

Feels Writing Long Done Stories Film Concern Sells Remarkable

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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.”

Approach Roots Coming Out Rooted

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

Use Crafts Experience Yourself

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“Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.”

Kind Children Facts Age Emotion Taken Daughter Relate Away From You Grandson Having A Daughter

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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.”

People Said Courses Reading Listening Husband They Said Cousin Tricky Your Husband Listening To Others Lady Macbeth

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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.”

People Thinking Knows Children Two Facts Issues Taken Mets Extraordinary Adopted

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“I felt quite a responsibility when I played Elizabeth I but nobody here remembers her! And then I felt a responsibility when I played Queen Victoria but not many people remember her.”

People Remember Felt Responsibility Queens Victoria

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“The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you..." And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link.”

Knows Men Said Film Mother Found Father Secret Car Changed Relation Towns West Sorry Links Ireland I'm Sorry Cousin Dublin Northern Ireland Secret Of My Success

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“I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.”

Feels Years Long Feelings Age Legs Brilliant Knees Blonde Long Legs

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“Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.”

Thinking Looks Like You Clothes Look Up Bob Up And Down

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“I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.”

People Thinking Moving Teach Comedy Drama Tragedy Breathe

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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.”

World Needs Form Environment Court Structure Climate Change Global Warming Urgent World Environment

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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.”

Ifs Needs Children Eye Care Nature Simple Pleasure Environment Tree Nature's Beauty

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“We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.”

Matter Morning Get Up

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“The only real failure is the failure to try.”

Trying Real Exotic

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“There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.”

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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.”

Thinking Feels Use Energy Huge Fearful Petrol

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“I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.”

Thinking Way Believe Said Business Written Feet One Way Proportion

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“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.”

Thinking Facts Able Jobs Grateful Be Grateful

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“The theater is the thing I love doing most.”

Theater Things I Love

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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.”

Stories Reading Scripts

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“Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.”

People Stage Missing

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“It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.”

Real Reality Truth Convenient

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

Sometimes Able Used Bits Five Week Tiny Used To Be Tea Eggs Yorkshire Rations

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

Thinking Should Jobs Combination

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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?”

Goes On Essentials Frightened

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

Girl Husband My Husband Bond Girl

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“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.”

Want Kind Saws Design Circumstances Extraordinary Theatre Designer Avon

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

People Can Do Concerned Welcome Elderly

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“I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.”

Limits Limitation

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“Never fall out of love with life”

Fall Letting Go Falling In Love Moving On Love Life Letting Go And Moving On Moving Forward In Life Just Let Go Moving On In Life Moving On Love Love And Letting Go

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“And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.”

Given Wonderful Radio Meals Bob Things You Love

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“I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.”

Knows Film Left Cutting

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“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.”

Knows Feels Sometimes Actors Cases Lucky Casts Actresses Desperate Employed Actors And Actresses

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“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.”

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“I couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you have nobody to interrupt you. I love being part of a company, and telling a story.”

Stories Love Is Company

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“I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.”

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Looks Persons Bits Work Out

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

Crosses Bridges

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“There are very few things that surprise me.”

Surprise Surprise Me

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“I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.”

People Thinking I Can Hate Can Do Hate People Bossy

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“I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.”

Wanted Young Designer

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“I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.”

Want Expected Great Things

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Born: December 9, 1934
Known for: Film actress
Quotes: 71

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