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" I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence. "
Sean Bean
Information
Silence
Think
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" I saw 'The Exorcist' at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren't in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house. "
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" Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke. "
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" Football is a passionate game. It excites us. "
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" 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 think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you. "
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" I love doing just nothing in my free time. "
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" I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring. "
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" You don't necessarily equate me with humor! "
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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've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading. "
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" The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now. "
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" Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" I always get nervous before a scene. "
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" Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce. "
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" I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong. "
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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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" 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. "
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" There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good. "
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" I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower. "
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" 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. "
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