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

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.

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.

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

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

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

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

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

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