Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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 get a bit angry. "
Michael Sheen
Child
Turn
Parent
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Michael Sheen
Eye
Good
Look
" I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it. "
Michael Sheen
See
Point
Done
" 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
Feel
Generosity
Tears
" The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons. "
Michael Sheen
Secret
Acting
Act
" 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
Business
Family
Sister
" I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either. "
Michael Sheen
Wearing
Either
Like
" 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
Live
People
Weird
" 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
Time
Rock
Good
" My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life. "
Michael Sheen
My Life
Life
Dog
" '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
Questions
Life
Death
" 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
Struggle
Acceptance
Process
" 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
Got
Film
Doing
" I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing. "
Michael Sheen
Nightlife
Thing
Whole
" I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character. "
Michael Sheen
Story
I Think
Good
" I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser. "
Michael Sheen
Something
Suppose
Dresser
" I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style. "
Michael Sheen
Clothes
Attention
Try
" I was obsessed with football when I was growing up. "
Michael Sheen
Growing Up
Football
Up
" I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting. "
Michael Sheen
Enjoy
Things
Research
" 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
Experience
Best
Sad
" For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references. "
Michael Sheen
Culture
Shared
Me
" I can be a lazy dresser. "
Michael Sheen
Dresser
Lazy
I Can
" A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell. "
Michael Sheen
Bell
Girl
Children
" 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
Self
You
Trying
" I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment. "
Michael Sheen
Way
Think
Story