Michael Sheen Quotes (79 quotes)

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„It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.“
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Picture of quotation author Michael Sheen
„I'm not a Christian.“
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Picture of quotation author Michael Sheen
„I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.“
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„There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.“
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„I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.“
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„I think it's quite tough for people like Tom Cruise where you can never really get away from being Tom Cruise in something. You're so familiar to people and people know so much about your life.“
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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 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.“
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„Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going to be making a different film, then that's not gonna work.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.“
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„When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.“
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„The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.“
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„My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.“
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„I've never met anyone normal.“
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Michael Sheen
Author born: February 05, 1969
Nationality: Welsh
Author Profession: Actor

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