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.’ Michael Sheen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Michael Sheen Read Quote
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. Michael Sheen Read Quote
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, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it. Michael Sheen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
