Sean Bean Quotes

When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

I try to be as focused as I can so I can do my job to the best of my abilities.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.