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Charles Dance
English
Actor
Born:
Oct 10
,
1946
Actor
Any
Game
Good
Me
You
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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
Time
Day
You
Every
Else
Finally
Out
Find
See
Totally
Something
Something Else
Write
Written
Come
Conclusion
Reeling
Go
Very
Senses
Which
Next
Your
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
Life
You
Theatre
Wonderful
Will
Films
Nights
Sick
Late
Scare
Never
Takes
Feel
Over
Wishing
Well
Course
Always
Making
Been
Off
Get
Goes
Which
Preferred
Then
Your
Whole
Evening
Bomb
Why
Applause
Play
Thing
Lunchtime
Start
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
Charles Dance
Politics
You
Matter
Earth
Corrupt
Most
Where
Profession
You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
Charles Dance
You
Yourself
About
Objective
Attempt
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 as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.
Charles Dance
Good
You
Game
Thought
Single
Energy
Think
Say
Those
Bad
Silk
Scene
Purse
Make
Occasion
Get
Trying
Any
Sow
Where
Script
Then
Us
Game Of Thrones
Ear
Start
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
Charles Dance
Work
You
Age
Out
Begins
Get
Certain
Certain Age
Thin
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
Charles Dance
Men
Older
Leading
Like
Robert
Robert Redford
Parts
Still
Handful
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Romantic
Landing
Sean
Sean Connery
Connery
Nicholson
Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
Charles Dance
Hero
Made
Films
Written
Most
Around
Even
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
Charles Dance
You
Confidence
More
Gives
Principal
Roles
Clout
Which
Playing
I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.
Charles Dance
Please
Said
Sir
Want
Actor
Number
We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
Charles Dance
Shakespeare
Cat
Had
Dogs
Goats
Five
Two
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
Dance
Wind
Else
Charles
About
Someone
Something
Something Else
Talk
Operate
Make
Talking
Am
Impression
Up
Screenplay
Transmit
Use
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
Saying
Me
You
Think
Once
Charles
Dresser
Window
Area
Put
Coming
Off
Manager
Really
Round
We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.
Charles Dance
Risks
People
Television
Take
Denominator
Stop
Common
Common Denominator
Lowest
Playing
British
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
Good
You
Car
Drive
Whatever
Way
Right Way
Properly
Shakespeare
Never
Learn
Leaves
Years
Done
Maybe
Influence
Aspects
Company
Twelve
Ever
Right
Royal
Plays
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
You
Will
Face
Unless
Tell
Characters
More
Austere
Itself
Any
Interesting
Lends
Them
Much
Villain
Actor
Play
Two-Dimensional
I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.
Charles Dance
Love
Tony Blair
Bit
Out
John
Restoration
Blair
Major
Like
Era
Coming
Optimism
Tony
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 and I do all the things that everybody else does.
Charles Dance
Music
Home
Ride
Guitar
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Does
Listen
Bike
Swim
Play
Things
Play Music
I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.
Charles Dance
You
Lying
Approbation
Tells
Like
Any
Who
Actor
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
Book
Think
Counterproductive
Come
Film
Actor
Copies
Set
Adapted
I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.
Charles Dance
Me
Trust
Back
Says
Hairs
Go
Trust Me
Up
Whenever
Anyone
Riddled
Cynicism
Neck
I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.
Charles Dance
Ralph
Would
Liked
Dead
Paul
Worked
Now
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
School
Thought
Show Off
Back
Adolescence
Only
Through
Had
Disappeared
School Plays
Performing
Perhaps
Well
Came
Go
Off
Any
Stammer
Then
Show
Fun
Now
Started
Plays
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
You
People
Old
Would
Would-Be
Darling
Retire
Retired
Nobody
Left
Going
Keep
Keep Going
Actor
Play
I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.
Charles Dance
Time
Theatre
London
Like
Question
Up
Keep
I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.
Charles Dance
Work
Saying
Good
Old
Busy
Late
Once
Dreadful
Would
Would-Be
Ringing
John
Shame
Shared
Retire
Nobody
Like
Him
Got
Still
Up
Sir
Any
Agent
Working
Hello
Who
Apparently
Keep
Play
Here
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