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Charles Dance

I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

I’ve never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime, and by mid-afternoon, you’re wishing for a bomb scare so the whole thing will be called off. Of course, if the evening goes well and you get the applause, then it’s wonderful.

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven’t been building up my pension appearing in films like ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ but fantasy has now got a grip on me. I am also appearing in ‘Game of Thrones’ as the head of the House of Lannister.

– Charles Dance

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 parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

– Charles Dance

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 you?

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I’d had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: ‘Well, perhaps I can show off now.’

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

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 use the right knives and forks and behave properly.

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, ‘Stop being rude,’ ‘Stop shouting,’ ‘Stop jumping around on the furniture.’ But ‘Stop showing off’? That’s awful.

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They’re paid very, very minimal wages – probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It’s kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses – it’s appalling.

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I’m as common as muck.

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

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

– Charles Dance

Charles Dance

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

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