Charles Dance
Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance, OBE, known as Charles Dance, is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 October 1946
talking wind use
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.
names car pick-me-up
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?
queens kings couple
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments.
giving roles clout
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
hero film made
Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
age certain
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
book games size
I have to admit that I haven't read any of the books [of George Martin's "Game of Thrones"] and I don't refer to them. Apart from anything else they're very thick [in size] and they frighten me. A terrifying prospect.
about-yourself objectives
You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
writing next-day conclusion
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.
sex blessed thinking
I don't think I've ever been asked to act out bad sex. It's not my style. I've been blessed with good rhythm.
jobs independent differences
On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.
attitude eye games
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.
way mud looks
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 'aristocratic' demeanor.
thinking window charles-i
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.