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Sean Bean Quotes

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.

– Sean Bean

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

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

– Sean Bean

Anyone who says they are a hard man – they aren’t.

– Sean Bean

Football is a passionate game. It excites us.

– Sean Bean

I think we have a perception of transvestites all being the same, as one block. It’s not one mass or tribe. Everybody’s got a different story.

– Sean Bean

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.

– Sean Bean

There’s something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

– Sean Bean

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.

– Sean Bean

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

– Sean Bean

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

– Sean Bean

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

– Sean Bean

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

– Sean Bean

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

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

It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home.

– Sean Bean

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.

– Sean Bean

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.

– Sean Bean

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

– Sean Bean

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

– Sean Bean

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

– Sean Bean

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?

– Sean Bean

As an actor, you’re in the hands of producers and directors. It’s important to find out who you’re working with.

– Sean Bean

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

– Sean Bean

I always get nervous before a scene.

– Sean Bean

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

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

If you’re going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent.

– Sean Bean

I go to see my kids in school plays.

– Sean Bean

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.

– Sean Bean

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