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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

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I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang 'I'll See You In My Dreams,' and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

~Charles Dance

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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

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I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

~Charles Dance

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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

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Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses - it's appalling.

~Charles Dance

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You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.

~Charles Dance

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My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.

~Charles Dance

Topics: Behave Corner Forks Herself House How Keen Knives Married Me Mother Properly Right She Taught Up Use Waitress

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I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'

~Charles Dance

Topics: Adolescence Any Back Came Disappeared Fun Go Had Now Off Only Performing Perhaps Plays School School Plays Show Show Off Started Then Thought Through Well I Can

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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?

~Charles Dance

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: October 10th, 1946

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