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Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

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

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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?

I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

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

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

I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

I don't think I've ever been asked to act out bad sex. It's not my style. I've been blessed with good rhythm.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

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.

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.

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

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

Power is always a corrupting influence.

I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.