Michael Sheen famous quotes

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

#Struggle #Acceptance #Hysteria

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.
-- Michael Sheen

#Jesus #Miracle #Looks

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.
-- Michael Sheen

#People #Scary #Acting

I can be a lazy dresser.
-- Michael Sheen

#Lazy #Dressers

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.
-- Michael Sheen

#Thinking #Creative #Projects

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.
-- Michael Sheen

#Character #Reality #Play

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.
-- Michael Sheen

#Nightlife

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.
-- Michael Sheen

#Culture #Enjoyable

Everyone deserves compassion.
-- Michael Sheen

#Compassion #Deserve

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
-- Michael Sheen

#Character #Surface

'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

#Real #Differences #Life And Death

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.
-- Michael Sheen

#Moving #Giving #Alive

It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.
-- Michael Sheen

#Play #Interesting #Leader

I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.
-- Michael Sheen

#Children #Thinking #Hands

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

#Home #Thinking #Editors

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.
-- Michael Sheen

#Letting Go #Self #Years

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
-- Michael Sheen

#Real #Passion #Parent

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.
-- Michael Sheen

#Home #Spending Time #Britain

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
-- Michael Sheen

#Running #Drama #Fiction

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
-- Michael Sheen

#Thumbs #Want

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.
-- Michael Sheen

#Football #Growing Up #Growing

Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.
-- Michael Sheen

#Girl #Boys #Kind

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

#Helping #Failing #Process

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
-- Michael Sheen

#Mother #Dad #Reading

We see death constantly on film.
-- Michael Sheen

#Film

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.
-- Michael Sheen

#Sports #Raw Talent #Talent

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
-- Michael Sheen

#Drama #School #People

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
-- Michael Sheen

#Sexy #Reality #Grieving

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.
-- Michael Sheen

#Eccentric #Dressers

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

#Judging #World #Grew

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.
-- Michael Sheen

#Mother #Daughter #Book

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.
-- Michael Sheen

#Blair

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.
-- Michael Sheen

#Acting #Research #Enjoy

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.
-- Michael Sheen

#Done #Want

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.
-- Michael Sheen

#Meaningful #Hollywood

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
-- Michael Sheen

#People #Britain

A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'
-- Michael Sheen

#Sorry #Names #America

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
-- Michael Sheen

#Dog #Cat #Tragedy

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.
-- Michael Sheen

#Thinking #Acting #Be Kind

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.
-- Michael Sheen

#Children #Parent #Stressed

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.
-- Michael Sheen

#Mother #Daughter #Growing Up

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.
-- Michael Sheen

#Existence #Kenneth

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
-- Michael Sheen

#Fiction #Fans #Scared

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
-- Michael Sheen

#Character #Vampire #Fans

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.
-- Michael Sheen

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.
-- Michael Sheen

#Clothes #Style #Trying

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.
-- Michael Sheen

#Real #Thinking #Actors

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.
-- Michael Sheen

#Thinking #Stories #Way

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
-- Michael Sheen

#Character #Reputation #Extremes

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.
-- Michael Sheen

#Bridges #Brilliant

I've always loved animation and animated films.
-- Michael Sheen

#Film #Animated #Animation