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" I go to see my kids in school plays. "
Sean Bean
Plays
School
Kids
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" I used to play a lot of villains. You have to break out of it, and I did. "
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" 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. "
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" It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it? "
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" 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. "
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" I always get nervous before a scene. "
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" I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that. "
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" I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that? "
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" I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff. "
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" 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. "
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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! "
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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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You
" 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. "
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" It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond. "
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" Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball. "
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" Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts. "
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Immerse
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" Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway. "
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" 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. "
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" Football is a passionate game. It excites us. "
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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. "
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" A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. "
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