If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from. — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as… — 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
