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Interviewer Brendan O'Hea, rather rudely asking about a wart (or, a "gathering of veins," as she calls it) on Dench's forehead: Have you ever thought of having it removed?
Judi Dench; No, I haven't, if it's all the same to you.

Interviewer Brendan O'Hea: In an interview you gave in 1996, you said: 'Gertrude doesn't say anything at times when you would think she would do so...there are vital things left unsaid.' What did you mean by that?

Judi Dench: No idea, I must have been drunk, it's rubbish.

--In the chapter about Hamlet

"I could never perform a one person show, I wouldn't know how to get ready unless there were jokes and pants flying through the air."

Interviewer Brendan O'Hea: Jude you're being so badly behaved. You talk about handing on the baton to the next generation--there'll be somebody out there wanting to play this part.
Judi Dench: Well, good luck to them. Don't expect me to be in the audience.

In the chapter where Dench complains about the play she calls "The Merchant of fucking Venice."

"It was a magical moment--we had to do a lot of running and wafting and dancing and singing."

--playing First Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream