Sean Bean movie quotes

“Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?”
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“War is young men dying and old men talking. Ignore the politics.”

Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- James Bond: I'm alone.
- Alec Trevelyan: Aren't we all?”
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan

“- Agamemnon: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!
- Odysseus: I don't care about the man's allegiance, I care about his ability to win battles!”
Brian Cox - Agamemnon
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- James Bond: It's too easy.
- Alec Trevelyan: Half of everything is luck, James.
- James Bond: And the other half?
- Alec Trevelyan: Fate!”
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan

“I wasn't afraid. I was depressed.”
Sean Bean - Andy McNab

“- Major Hogan: Spain is a sleeping tiger! If the people of Torre Castro rise up, even for an hour, the shock will shake the whole of Spain. Carry on, sir.
- Richard Sharpe: Rise up? Do you really believe men will fight and die for a rag on a pole?”
Brian Cox - Hogan
Sean Bean - Sharpe

“We're soldiers. It's my profession and I'm proud of it. Nobody said you had to be crap at it. As for the men who tortured us, they had a job to do as well. It's just that some of them enjoyed it a but too much. If I met any of them in the street tomorrow, and thought I could get away with it, I'd slot them.”
Sean Bean - Andy McNab

“This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fought in it.”
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- Cooper: Can I ask you a question, sir? Where'd you learn to fight so dirty, sir?
- Richard Sharpe: Same place as you, Cooper. Saturday night in the gutters.”
Michael Mears - Cooper
Sean Bean - Sharpe

“The psychiatrists turned up to check us for signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Turned out they were more strung-out than we were.”
Sean Bean - Andy McNab

“Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.”

Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- James Bond: He'll betray you! Just like everyone else.
- Colonel Ourumov: Is this true?
- Alec Trevelyan: What's true is that in 48 hours you and I will have more money than God. And Mr. Bond here will have a small memorial service with only Moneypenny and a few tearful restaurateurs in attendance.”

Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Gottfried John - Colonel Ourumov
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan

- Patrick Harper: We don't want to go south, sir.
- Richard Sharpe: And what the hell do I care what you and the lads want, eh? You think the British Army's a bloody dem... Dem...
- Harris: Democracy, sir. Comes from the Greek word "demos" and means "rule by"...
- Richard Sharpe: Shut up, Harris!
Daragh O'Malley - Harper
Sean Bean - Sharpe
Jason Salkey - Harris

- James Bond: Why?
- Alec Trevelyan: Hilarious question, particularly from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled all those dictators, undermined all those regimes, only to come home: "Well done, good job, but sorry, old boy, everything you risked your life and limb for has changed".
- James Bond: It was the job we were chosen for.
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan

“Women have a way of complicating things.”
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- Alec Trevelyan: In 16 minutes and 43 sec, in 42 seconds, the United Kingdom will reenter the stone age.
- James Bond: A worldwide financial meltdown. And all so mad little Alec can settle a score with the world, 50 years on.
- Alec Trevelyan: Oh, please James, spare me the Freud. I might as well ask you for the vodka martinis that have...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- Aragorn: I do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail.
- Boromir: Our people, our people. I would have followed you, my brother... my captain... my king.”
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn
Sean Bean - Boromir

“- Dinger: Did you know that Saddam Hussein is an anagram of 'He's a sad nudist'?
- Andy McNab: Where did the 'M' go?
- Dinger: I swapped it for a 'T'.
- Andy McNab: You can't do that.
- Dinger: Well I just did.
- Andy McNab: That's not right.”
Steve Nicolson - Dinger
Sean Bean - Andy McNab

“If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector and of Achilles.”
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- Aragorn: If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword...
- Legolas: And you have my bow.
- Gimli: And my axe.
- Boromir: You carry the fate of us all, little one. If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done.”

Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn
Orlando Bloom - Legolas
John Rhys-Davies - Gimli
Sean Bean - Boromir

“- Spence: You worried about saving your own skin?
- Sam: I am. It covers my body.”
Sean Bean - Spence
Robert De Niro - Sam

“Don't make any sudden moves. Just because we're buyingguns doesn't mean we didn't bring any.”
Sean Bean - Spence

“- Harris: Harris. From Wheatley in Oxfordshire.
- Richard Sharpe: And previously?
- Harris: A courtier to my lord Bacchus and an unremitting debtor.
- Richard Sharpe: You're a rake and a wastrel, Harris. Is there anything you can do?
- Harris: I can read, sir.”
Jason Salkey - Harris
Sean Bean - Sharpe

“- Richard Sharpe: Did you volunteer for this lot, Cooper?
- Cooper: Uh no, not exactly sir. I was invited to join... by a magistrate.”
Sean Bean - Sharpe
Michael Mears - Cooper