Charles Dance Quotes

I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Important
  • Think
  • Really

• Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Learn
  • Mountains

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Christian

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Sky

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Ending

• God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • God
  • Interested
  • Batting

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Poetry

• I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Road

• I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.

  

  John Knoll
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Job

• Christopher, like many other writers, was shockingly ignorant of the objective world, except where it touched his own experience. When he had to hide his ignorance beneath a veneer, he simply consulted someone who could supply him with the information he needed.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Good
  • Light

• I don't do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • Work

• I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.

  

  Charles Dance
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