36 Michael Sheen Quotes for You to Enjoy

Michael Sheen

Welsh Actor

Born: Feb 5, 1969

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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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On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions. Michael Sheen

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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The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons. Michael Sheen

You Secret Act Acting

I can be a lazy dresser. Michael Sheen

Dresser Lazy

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

Research Enjoy About Part Involve Because Doing Acting Things

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

Before See Something Point Done Want

In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things. Michael Sheen

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

Myself Rule See Thumb Like Go Want Things

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

Live Existence Very Kenneth

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 Name Parts Answer Lot Times America Bigger Need

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

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Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.' Michael Sheen

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

Looking Would More Like Taller Thinner

I am very impatient. Michael Sheen

Impatient Am Very

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

Love Brilliant He Act Jeff Bridges Watching

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me. Michael Sheen

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We see death constantly on film. Michael Sheen

Death Constantly See Film

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

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If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it. Michael Sheen

God You Believe Define Tell Whether

I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either. Michael Sheen

Wigs Would Wearing Never Like Sticking Either Really Use Things

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. Michael Sheen

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