You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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.

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.

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

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all

Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

One planet, one experiment.

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.