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" George Martin looks like Santa Claus, but he's got a wonderfully disturbed mind. "

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" Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional. "

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

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" When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times. "

" I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I'd always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse. "

" My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time. "

" I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent. "

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

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

" I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were. "

" There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that. "

" I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it. "

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

" My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K. "

" I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be. "

" I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. "

" I go to see my kids in school plays. "

" I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that. "

" For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing - what do you call them - memes? "

" Football is a passionate game. It excites us. "

" I like Daniel Craig. I worked with him on 'Sharpe,' one of the very early ones, maybe the second one we did - 'Sharpe's Revenge?' A long, long time ago, and he was good in that then. "

" 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. "

" The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good. "