Charles Dance Quotes

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• By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a…
• You have to be selfish to be an actor.
• I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
• 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…
• Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
• When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
• You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
• 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…
• A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
• My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to…
• We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.
• Power is always a corrupting influence.
• Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
• Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.
• In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride a bike…
• When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts…

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