To mark her 80th birthday, the actress has said she's tempted to get a tattoo.
"There’s an Indian symbol that I like which supposedly represents life and love and everything," she said in an interview with Good Housekeeping Magazine.
"One of the cameramen who worked on The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel told me what it meant, but I’m a bit nervous in case I’m being set up. It might be unbelievably rude."
Apparently Dame Judi's daughter, Finty Williams, loves the idea of her mum getting inked.
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The Hollywood star turned 80 in December, but she said the word "old" is banned in her house.
"The thought of putting my feet up doesn’t appeal at all – no, no, no. I’ve got plenty of time for that at weekends or on odd days off.
"The prospect of no work on the horizon makes me a bit edgy. I have no particular ambitions – I just want to be employed," she added.
Dame Judi went on to say she'd never have a facelift because then she'd stop getting all the parts "for old people".
The actresses's are a reminder that age is nothing but a number - you can be fierce, ambitious, daring or go out and get a tattoo whether you're 18 or 80.
Larry Happ, 68, raises his arms to show his tattoos as he competes in the senior man largest tattoo category at the Los Angeles Tattoo Convention held at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel in 1998. (credit:Mathilde De L'ecotais / AFP / Getty Images)
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Isobel Varley from Stevenage near London, England, smiles as she poses at the 2003 International Tattoo Convention in Lausanne, Switzerland. According to Guinness World Records, Varley is the world's most tattooed senior woman. (credit:Keystone / Fabrice Coffrini / AP)
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Linda May Ellis of Rockland, Mass., poses at a Boston tattoo convention in 2003. Ellis is holding the childhood picture of herself at 7 years old that was used as a model for the tattoo on her arm, which was done after Ellis turned 50. (credit:Michael Dwyer / AP)
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87-year-old photographer and tattoo artist Herbert Hoffmann poses in front of his photographs before a 2006 exhibition of his works in Dresden, Germany. (credit:Matthias Rietschel / AP)
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Portrait of an elderly man with a big beard, Download Festival, 2009, UK. (credit:Getty Images)
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Kai Kristensen enjoys his pipe while taking a break at the Adams Mark Hotel in St. Louis during the 2003 National Tattoo Association convention. (credit:James A. Finley / AP)
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Man with tattoos posing at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Sturgis, South Dakota, in 2007. (credit:Getty Images)
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Elizabeth Weinzirl (pictured in Minneapolis 1978) has brightly colored tattoos winding around her body from her neck to her knees. She says she loves her ink and got the tattoos because her husband wanted a tattooed wife "and I didn’t want to move out." (credit:AP)
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Pearl Harbor survivor Thomas Michenovich shows off his wartime tattoos before the start of a Dec. 7, 2004, ceremony honoring survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (credit:Marco Garcia / Getty Images)