I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director,… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
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? — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now. — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags. — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
