Judi Dench Actress Quotations

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.

Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.

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.

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

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.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.