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" 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

House

Need

Television

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Charles Dance

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Jack

" 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

Day

Name

" 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. "

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

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Back

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" I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in. "

Charles Dance

Television

Good

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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

Play

Game

" 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

Manager

Saying

" You have to be selfish to be an actor. "

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