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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I love the Restoration. It’s a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair. Charles Dance Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they’re dead now. Charles Dance Read Quote
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 Read Quote
