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Power is always a corrupting influence.

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 back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Charles Dance

I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang 'I'll See You In My Dreams,' and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

Charles Dance

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

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

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

Charles Dance

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

Charles Dance

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

Charles Dance

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Charles Dance

There is a huge fan base; they're very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished - before I started working on the series, I didn't know anything about 'Game of Thrones.' I hadn't heard of the books.

Charles Dance

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

Charles Dance

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 and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

Charles Dance

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

Charles Dance

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

Charles Dance

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.

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 you're a natch at this.

Charles Dance

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

Charles Dance

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Charles Dance

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

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 is much more interesting to play.

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.

Charles Dance

I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves you. If you learn to drive a car, and you learn the right way if there is ever a right way. You learn the good aspects, you learn to drive properly. And that never leaves you.

Charles Dance

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

Charles Dance

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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

A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.

Charles Dance