Judi Dench Quotes

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

I did 'How to Succeed in Business..., ' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.

I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of 'Look Back in Anger' with David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in it, and it blew me away. I still think about it and look back on it as the moment where I decided, 'I want to do that.'

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.

I saw 'The Wild Duck' at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and it was one of the best pieces of theatre I'd ever seen.

I'm a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did 'Hairspray' in high school - I was Seaweed.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.