Television Quotes by Charles Dance

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

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

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

— Charles Dance

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

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

— Charles Dance

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

— Charles Dance

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

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

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

— Charles Dance

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

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

— Charles Dance

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