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. – Michael Sheen
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life. – Michael Sheen
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there’s a tendency to be tempted into doing just that. – Michael Sheen
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
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
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. – Michael Sheen
I suppose I’ve got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable. – Michael Sheen
I enjoy doing things that involve research because it’s part of what I enjoy about acting. – Michael Sheen
A lot of the times when I’ve auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, ‘Sorry, we need a bigger name.’ – Michael Sheen
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
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
I would never use prosthetics. I don’t like sticking things on. I don’t really like wearing wigs, either. – Michael Sheen
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. – Michael Sheen
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
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
It’s weird that I’ve ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school. – Michael Sheen
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
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
‘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