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" At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it. "

Sean Bean

Music

Art

College

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Sean Bean

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Money

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

" 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. "

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" It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home. "

" Working in a garden calms me down. "

Sean Bean

Calms

Down

" I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters. "

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" I spend a fair chunk of time in Los Angeles, and after about ten days of warmth and unbroken clear skies, you start to yearn for a bit of good old British gloom and rain! "

" 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 love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design. "

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

" I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff. "

" 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. "