Judi Dench on you ... It drives me absolutely spare when people say, 'Are you going to retire? Isn't it time you put your feet up?' Or tell me [my] age." In 2013, she spoke about her personal religious faith. Dench, a Quaker, said, "I think it informs everything I do ... I couldn't be without it." Dench was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1970 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1988 New Year Honours. She was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of
Julian Curry of interviews with thirteen leading actors focussing on specific Shakespearean roles. It was nominated as 2011 Theatre Book of the Year. In "Shakespeare on Stage" Curry interviews Brian Cox (about the titular role of Titus Andronicus), Judi Dench (Juliet), Ralph Fiennes (about the titular role of Coriolanus), Rebecca Hall (Rosalind from "As You Like It"), Derek Jacobi (Malvolio from "Twelfth Night"), Jude Law ("Hamlet"), Adrian Lester ("Henry V"), Ian McKellen ("Macbeth"), Helen Mirren (Cleopatra), Tim Pigott-Smith (Leontes from "A Winter's Tale"), Kevin Spacey ("Richard II"), Patrick Stewart (Prospero from "The Tempest"), and Penelope Wilton (Isabella from "Measure for Measure. A