Charles Dance Quotes

• I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

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• A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite… what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

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• I was a window dresser for Burton’s once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you’re a natch at this.

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• A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

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• If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else’s screenplay.

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• I’m playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

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• It’s a question of keeping one’s eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They’re watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

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  Tags in Game, Watching

• We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

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• Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

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• When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

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• You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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• You have to be selfish to be an actor.

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• Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you’ve written and every conclusion you’ve come to.

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Charles Dance (13)

Birth:	10th October, 1946
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Charles Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. He is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Some of his most high-profile roles are Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown, Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3, Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child, the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Benedict in Last Action Hero, Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game, and Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones. He was set for a career in graphic design after graduating from De Montfort University before turning to acting. He received rave reviews and a Critics' Circle Best Actor award for his performance as the Oxford don C. S. Lewis in William Nicholson's Shadowlands, in the 2007 stage revival.

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• 1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett
• 1874 - Lou Henry Hoover
• 1959 - Perry Farrell
• 1946 - Dennis Wolfberg

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• 1991 - Lee Atwater
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• 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn
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