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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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" Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news. "

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

" The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation. "

" 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? "

" I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different versions of my death. And they settled on the third. "

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

" I love to be with my kid in Yorkshire. I love it there. "

" I used to play a lot of villains. You have to break out of it, and I did. "

" It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity. "

" I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love doing just nothing in my free time. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Working in a garden calms me down. "

" 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. "

" It's important to enjoy who you are and to appreciate things around you. "

" I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit. "

" I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies. "

" I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you. "

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