We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
Wisdom
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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.
Wisdom
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
Wisdom
Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
Wisdom
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
Success
You have to be selfish to be an actor.
Wisdom
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
Wisdom
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?
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.
Wisdom
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
Wisdom
You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
Wisdom
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?
Wisdom
I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.
Wisdom
I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.
Wisdom
I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.
Love
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
Wisdom
I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.
Success
I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.
Wisdom
I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.
Wisdom
If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.
Life
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