Charles Dance Quotes

12 quotations by Charles Dance

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.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

You can't spend as long as we did in India without being overwhelmed. And changed. Something like that is so big and so full of contradictions.

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

There's a big difference between fronting a successful TV series and almost fronting a big film with world sales and huge amounts of money at stake.

My job as an actor remains the same but you can't just go in and do it without being aware of all the other things that surround it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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