Dame Judi Dench quotes
- From the movie: My Week With Marilyn
“First love is such sweet despair, Colin.”
- From the movie: Casino Royale
- From the movie: Tulip Fever
“Never underestimate God. He forgets nothing.”
- From the movie: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Algy: My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was "found out". The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live - that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.
- Lady Bracknell: He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. - From the movie: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
“- Evelyn Greenslade: How was America?
- Muriel Donnelly: It made death more tempting.” - From the movie: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
“- Evelyn Greenslade: I don't know why I tell you anything.
- Muriel Donnelly: Because I'm older and wiser.
- Evelyn Greenslade: Nineteen days older.
- Muriel Donnelly: That's the entire lifespan of a wasp.” - From the movie: Iris
“Education doesn't make you happy. And what is freedom? We don't become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy.”
- From the movie: Iris
“[Education] Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind. And give us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.”
- From the movie: Iris
“Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light, being pure ourselves.”
- From the movie: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
“Sometimes it seems to me that the difference between what we want and what we fear is the width of an eyelash.”
- From the movie: J. Edgar
“We are the sinners, Edgar. We tolerated lawlessness in the land until it grew to diabolical proportions.”
- From the movie: Skyfall
“- M: Where the hell have you been?
- James Bond: Enjoying death. 007 reporting for duty.” - From the movie: Skyfall
- From the movie: Shakespeare in Love
- La trovi in Spare Time in Hollywood
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“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.”
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
“Work certainly does help fill a void.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.”
- From the movie: Casino Royale
“Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand.”
- From the movie: Skyfall
“- Raoul Silva: No remorse. Just as I had imagined.
- M: Regret is unprofessional.” - From the movie: The World Is Not Enough
- From the movie: The Importance of Being Earnest
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delecate, exotic fruit. Touch it, and the bloom is gone.”
- From the movie: Skyfall
“- M: 007, what the hell are you doing? Are you kidnapping me?
- James Bond: That would be one way of looking at it.” - From the movie: Iris
“Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.”
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