Michael Sheen Quotes

65 quotes in 872 categories

• It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.
• I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.
• Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.
• 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.
• I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I've always loved animation and animated films.
• 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…
• I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.
• My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
• When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.
• '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…
• A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'
• 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.
• Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
• 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.
• Everyone deserves compassion.

Browse Michael Sheen Quotes by Category