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" 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
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" 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. "
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Actor
Know
You
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Think
Passion
Detail
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Mother
Boxing
Time
" If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent. "
Sean Bean
Team
Support
Per
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Long
Villain
You
" Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith. "
Sean Bean
Big
Leap
Need
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Find
Bad
Limits
" 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
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Film
Cowboy
Come
" I worked with John Hurt a couple of times and learned a lot from him. "
Sean Bean
Lot
Times
Him
" 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. "
Sean Bean
World
Travel
Enough
" 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
Up
Private Life
" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "
Sean Bean
Wildlife
Surprise
Poetry
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Time
Good
Him
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Goodbye
Christmas
Tough
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Year
Emotional
Space
" My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. "
Sean Bean
Thought
Just
Family
" 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! "
Sean Bean
Time
Good
Rain
" I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. "
Sean Bean
Like
Man
Kind
" 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. "
Sean Bean
Good
Laugh
Discipline
" I go to see my kids in school plays. "
Sean Bean
Plays
School
Kids
" Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce. "
Sean Bean
Creating
Vibrant
Real
" I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence. "
Sean Bean
Information
Silence
Think
" I think the amount of production value that was put into 'Game of Thrones' was incredible, and it's unlike anything I've seen on any other production, including 'The Lord of the Rings.' "
Sean Bean
Incredible
Game
Lord
" Obviously I'm delighted I'm a grandfather, but I guess it takes a little while to digest. You start thinking, 'Oh, I'm half-way over the natural life span. So this is the last bit, and I'd better enjoy it.' "
Sean Bean
Better
Start
Thinking
" I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career. "
Sean Bean
Go
Hollywood
Career
" 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters. "
Sean Bean
Friendship
Bond
Journey
" You don't necessarily equate me with humor! "
Sean Bean
You
Equate
Humor
" You can run out of energy if you take on a lot of stuff. "
Sean Bean
Out
Run
Energy
" I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that? "
Sean Bean
Why
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