The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.
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Michael Sheen
Profession:
Actor
Born:
February 5, 1969
Nationality:
Welsh
Quotes by Michael Sheen
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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.
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Michael Sheen
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.
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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.
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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.
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Michael Sheen
I've always had an eye for what looks good on a man. But I've not always found it easy to find clothes that look good on me.
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Michael Sheen
I'm not a Christian.
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Michael Sheen
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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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.
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Michael Sheen
I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
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Michael Sheen
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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Michael Sheen
Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.
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Michael Sheen
I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.
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Michael Sheen
Everyone deserves compassion.
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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.
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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.
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Michael Sheen
I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.
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Michael Sheen
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.'
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Michael Sheen
I've never met anyone normal.
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Michael Sheen
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
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Michael Sheen
A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'
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Michael Sheen
I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.
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Michael Sheen
I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.
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Michael Sheen
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
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Michael Sheen
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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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.
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Michael Sheen
I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.
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Michael Sheen
My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
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Michael Sheen