Latest Judi Dench Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Judi Dench

  Drama, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.discdish.com

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Mother, Cousin, Sorry

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Queens, Responsibility, People

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Daughter, Children, Taken

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Cousin, Husband, Reading

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Judi Dench

  Experience Yourself, Use, Crafts

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Roots, Coming Out, Approach

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Writing, Long, Stories

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Judi Dench

  Responsibility, Long, Irises

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Careers, Interesting, Supposed To Be