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"I just want to go on working, and when you get to 72, it gets trickier." "You never stop working." "Laughs: I've got to look at all those parts in wheel chairs and in bed and all those parts now."
"Hardly, Dench's career is still in the fast track, it's become a triumph of the unexpected. A bounty of variety, a feast of scope.
"What's odd about Dench's career is not so much the range of what she does, as impressive as that is. It's the fact that it's all happened backwards."
She had been happy having a career as a classical actress. As careers maybe winding down, Dench's started speeding up. The door to American success opened and she strode through.
"Just wonderful, I went to a club called Birdland in New York, and as I arrived and got out of the cab, I saw a man punch another man. The man fell through a glass window, and I thought, this is it, I'm in New York.
Not only has she found it, it, that undefinable quality that produces stardom, had found her. In her 60's, life became a progression of big parts in the movies and on stage..
It seemed there was nothing she couldn't do. "I remember coming to rehearsal for "Amy's View", I walked down the street and somebody came towards me and gave me high five.
Well it was such a nice thing to do. I was really pleased.
"Judi Dench's name on the marquee, came to have the most cherished quality in show business, you can take it to the bank.
Whatever she does, she brings that most important ability, she makes it look easy. "The nature of an actor is to persuade an audience, that they are that person.
That is the thing about "M", in one of the film, I can't remember which one, I was put in a kind of jail, and I had to fiddle with a piece of machinery, and get in touch with 007.
My family was on the floor laughing. I can't even put up an ironing board, and here I am in the movie trying to save the world.
You know if the put you in the garage, I'm not going to be driven out anymore. They will say "poor old thing ran out of gas"
There is still lots of gas left in that tank. \"We are in the minority, doing a job that we really love and you can make a living at. I really do love it.