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" I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags. "

" A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts. "

" We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. "

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

" Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25. "

" 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. "

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

" Power is always a corrupting influence. "

" 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. "

" I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor. "

" 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? "

" You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence. "

" When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out. "