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

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.

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

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 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.

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

I spent a lot of time [between takes] apologising to Peter Dinklage [Dance's on-screen son, Tyrion Lannister] because I treat him appallingly.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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?

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.