Dame Judi Dench movie quotes

“- Renard: When I took her, she was promise itself. And then you left her at the mercy of a man like me. You ruined her. For what? To get to me? She's worth fifty of me.
- M: For once, I agree with you.”

Dame Judi Dench - M
Robert Carlyle - Renard

“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.”
Dame Judi Dench - Lady Bracknell

“- M: 007, what the hell are you doing? Are you kidnapping me?
- James Bond: That would be one way of looking at it.”
Dame Judi Dench - M
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“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.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“Sometimes we pay so much attention to our enemies, we forget to watch our friends as well.”
Dame Judi Dench - M

“I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd!”
Dame Judi Dench - Lady Bracknell

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.”
Dame Judi Dench - Lady Bracknell

“- M: You don't like me, Bond. You don't like my methods. You think I'm an accountant, a bean counter more interested in my numbers than your instincts.
- James Bond: The thought had occurred to me.
- M: Good, because I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dame Judi Dench - M
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- M: It was a possibility of losing you or the certainty of losing all those other agents. I made the only decision I could and you know it.
- James Bond: I think you lost your nerve.
- M: What are you expecting, a bloody apology? You know the rules of the game. You've been playing it long enough. We both have.”
Dame Judi Dench - M
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“Smell! A true Florentine smell. Inhale, my dear. Deeper! Every city, let me tell you, has its own smell.”
Dame Judi Dench - Eleanor Lavish, a novelist

“In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil.”
Dame Judi Dench - Aereon

“I have always been of the opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”
Dame Judi Dench - Lady Bracknell

“I should feel like a deprived animal if I can't write. I'm like a starved dog.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“Knowing who to trust is everything in this business.”
Dame Judi Dench - M

“- Lady Bracknell: Do you smoke?
- Jack: Well, Lady Bracknell, I am bound to say, yes, I do smoke.
- Lady Bracknell: That is well. A man should always have an occupation.”
Dame Judi Dench - Lady Bracknell
Colin Firth - Jack

“- M: You don't trust anyone, do you?
- James Bond: No.
- M: Then you've learned your lesson.”
Dame Judi Dench - M
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“I don't know whether there is anything particularly exciting about the air in this particular part of Hertfordshire, but the number of engagements that go on seem to me to be considerably above the proper average that statistics have laid down for our guidance.”
Dame Judi Dench - Lady Bracknell

“- M: Your job is to find out whether Carver or someone in his organization sent that ship off course, and why. Use your relationship with Mrs. Carver, if necessary.
- James Bond: I doubt if she'll remember me.
- M: Remind her. Then pump her for information.
- Miss Moneypenny: You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James.
- James...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dame Judi Dench - M
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Samantha Bond - Miss Moneypenny

“There are very few of us who have met a Necromonger and lived to speak of it. So when I choose to speak of it, you should choose to listen.”

Dame Judi Dench - Aereon

“- M: What else do we know about the Janus syndicate?
- James Bond: Top flight arms dealers headquartered in St. Petersburg. First outfit to restock the Iraqis during the Gulf War. The head man's unreliably described. No photographs. The woman, Onatopp, is our only confirmed contact.”
Dame Judi Dench - M
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“We face up to things we're afraid of because we can't go 'round 'em.”
Dame Judi Dench - Agnis Hamm

“- M: Don't frighten her.
- Bond: A shadow operation?
- M: Remember, shadows stay in front or behind - never on top.”

Dame Judi Dench - M
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

- Luc Clairmont: Happy birthday, Grandmama.
- Armande Voizin: The invitation said five o'clock.
- Luc Clairmont: I should have read it more closely.
- Armande Voizin: If you had, you would know there were supposed to be no gifts.
- Luc Clairmont: Don't worry so much about “supposed to”.
Aurelien Parent Koenig - Luc Clairmont
Dame Judi Dench - Armande Voizin

“- Queen Elizabeth: Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.
- Viola De Lesseps: Oh, but they can!”
Dame Judi Dench - Queen Elizabeth
Gwyneth Paltrow - Viola De Lesseps

“We all worry about going mad, don't we? How would we know? Those of us who live in our minds, anyway. Other people would tell us.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch