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" 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!' "

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" 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. "

Sean Bean

Someone

Trying

Playing

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

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

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

" I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway. "

" 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. "

" 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 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'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. "

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

" I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that? "

" I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life. "

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

" My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. "

" 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.' "

" Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts. "

Sean Bean

Gary

Immerse

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

Sean Bean

Away

Home

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

" 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. "

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

" Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease. "

" In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily. "

" Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn't believe in love. But marriage - that fits some people but obviously not me. "

Sean Bean

Marriage

Believe

" The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day. "

" I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'm playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head. "