Charles Dance Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
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Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
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I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.
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I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.
