Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention. "

Sean Bean

Attention

Private Life

Related Quotes:

" I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower. "

" I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring. "

" I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything. "

" I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy. "

" Working in a garden calms me down. "

Sean Bean

Calms

Down

" Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news. "

" You don't necessarily equate me with humor! "

" My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over. "

" When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's. "

" I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading. "

" I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. "

" You can run out of energy if you take on a lot of stuff. "

" Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce. "

" I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal 'cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that. "

" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong. "

" I'd like to do a cowboy film. I suppose I've come close to it on occasion, but not really to a classic cowboy film. "

" You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is. "

" I think we have a perception of transvestites all being the same, as one block. It's not one mass or tribe. Everybody's got a different story. "

" I love to be with my kid in Yorkshire. I love it there. "

" I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers. "

Sean Bean

First

Money

" I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it. "

" I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up. "

Sean Bean

Desire

Think

" I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying. "

" I'm very good at keeping a secret. "

" I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me. "

" It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home. "

Sean Bean

Away

Home

" It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity. "

" Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material. "

" There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive. "