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Working in a garden calms me down.
I always get nervous before a scene.
I go to see my kids in school plays.
I love doing just nothing in my free time.
It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?
You don't necessarily equate me with humor!
Football is a passionate game. It excites us.
Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.
I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower.
Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.
I love to be with my kid in Yorkshire. I love it there.
The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.
My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over.
I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent.
I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying.
I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.
I used to play a lot of villains. You have to break out of it, and I did.
I like to keep myself in shape. I run and do weights when I go to the gym.
I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies.
Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke.
George Martin looks like Santa Claus, but he's got a wonderfully disturbed mind.
I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.
I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life.
Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.
I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.
It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.
I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.
There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.
Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.
When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.
It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity.
When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?
To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!
I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.
It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home.
It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.
Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.
The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.
I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.
I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.
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.
I am quite quiet: I don't feel as though I have to express myself with words too often. Maybe I should do more.
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
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.