Michael Sheen Quotes

• I think I’m becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I’ll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It’s more of an actor’s medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

  Michael Sheen

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• I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That’s why we’re here. It’s at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It’s the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it’s difficult.

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• I suppose I’ve got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

  Michael Sheen

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• I suppose I’m something of an eccentric dresser.

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• I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that’s part of me. It’s what I judge everything else against.

  Michael Sheen

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• I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He’s brilliant.

  Michael Sheen

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• I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

  Michael Sheen

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• I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It’s not something I’m pleased about and it doesn’t happen very often, but it’s very much there.

  Michael Sheen

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• I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

  Michael Sheen

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• I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that’s what myths are for. It’s for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

  Michael Sheen

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• I enjoy doing things that involve research because it’s part of what I enjoy about acting.

  Michael Sheen

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• I don’t find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

  Michael Sheen

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• I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It’s the relief of connection that produces the tears.

  Michael Sheen

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• I can be a lazy dresser.

  Michael Sheen

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• I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

  Michael Sheen

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• I always say if I’m not good at something it’s just because I’ve not had time to focus on it… it’s just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

  Michael Sheen

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• Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

  Michael Sheen

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• ‘Hamlet’ is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what’s real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

  Michael Sheen

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• Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

  Michael Sheen

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• For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

  Michael Sheen

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Michael Sheen (68)

Birth:	5th February, 1969
Nationality:	Welsh
Profession:	Actor

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