List of Charles Dance Quotes

Because [writers] Dan Weiss And David Benioff Have Done Such A Great Job In Adapting Them, That's What We Work With. It Serves No Purpose To Anybody For Actors To Come Onto A Set With A Well-thumbed Copy Of The Source Material And Start Querying Why This Or That Line Has Been Left Out Of The Script. It's Probably Been Left Out For A Good Reason.

A Handful Of Older, Romantic Leading Men, Like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, And Robert Redford Are Still Landing Parts.

Most Films Are Written And Made With A Hero Around 35, Or Even 25.

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?

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.

But The Quality Of Writing In The Series [game Of Thrones] Is Paramount. That's Probably Why All Of Us Are Involved In This And All Of Us Are Quite So Loyal To It, Because We Don't Have To Expend A Lot Of Energy Trying To Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Pig's Ear. The Quality Of The Writing Is Really Good, And That's What Makes Playing A Character So Enjoyable, Whether He's Heroic Or Villainous.

You Have To Be Selfish To Be An Actor.

I'm Playing One Of The Principal Roles, Which Gives You More Clout And More Confidence.

It Starts With The Writing - Which Is Really, Really Good. And The Production Values Are Phenomenal. Hbo And Sky Have Spent Money On It, And You Get What You Pay For. This Has Money Put Into It Properly - Not Lavish Amounts - But As Each Season Is Successful, They Maintain The Money That's Being Spent To Maintain The Quality.

The Job Is Exactly The Same, It Just Goes On For Longer On Tv. Most Feature Films Are 35-40 Shooting Days. This Has 10 Parts, With Different Directors For Each Block. We Shoot With Two, Sometimes Three Cameras.

By The Margin Of Fair Zurich's Waters Dwelt A Youth, Whose Fond Heart, Night And Day, For The Fairest Of Fair Zurich's Daughters In A Dream Of Love Melted Away.

There Is A Huge Fan Base, They're Very Knowledgeable And Very Loyal. I Was Astonished - Before I Started Working On The Series I Didn't Know Anything About Game Of Thrones. I Hadn't Heard Of The Books. When It Started Going Out, People Were Coming Up To Me In The Street Saying [fake Cockney Accent] "oh, Game Of Thrones, F------ Wonderful.