Top 66 Sean Bean Quotes

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role – I just see what comes up.

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

Football is a passionate game. It excites us.

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.

When I first finished ‘Sharpe,’ it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

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

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

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.

Working in a garden calms me down.

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.

I like Daniel Craig. I worked with him on ‘Sharpe,’ one of the very early ones, maybe the second one we did – ‘Sharpe’s Revenge?’ A long, long time ago, and he was good in that then.

I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.

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.

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!’

You don’t necessarily equate me with humor!

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

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.

I always get nervous before a scene.

I’m very good at keeping a secret.

The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and… that’s not good.

I don’t believe you just create a character out of thin air, there’s always something of yourself you bring.

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

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

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

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.

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

I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career.

It’s a good thing to be typecast, isn’t it?

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.

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

When I first started shooting ‘Sharpe,’ back in the early 1990s, I’d kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August – Evie wasn’t even born then – and I wouldn’t see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times.

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

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

I’ve been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

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

I really got my money’s worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am quite quiet: I don’t feel as though I have to express myself with words too often. Maybe I should do more.

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.

I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.

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

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.’

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

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.

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.

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

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

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

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.

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