"Stop telling me to retire."
At 79, Dame Judi Dench is battling macular degeneration, and her failing eyesight has left her unable to read scripts, The Independent of London reports. But the actress says she has no intention of retiring and she's sick of having to answer questions about when she will leave the stage.
Speaking at a screening of her new film, a BBC1 Christmas adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot, she said,
“I loathe it. I don’t want to be told that I'm too old to do something; I want to try it first and then, if I don't succeed, then I can be told I can't do it."
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Speaking at a screening of her new film, a BBC1 Christmas adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot, she said,
“I loathe it. I don’t want to be told that I'm too old to do something; I want to try it first and then, if I don't succeed, then I can be told I can't do it."
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