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 confi…

- Michael Sheen

The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano lik…

- Michael Sheen

No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.

- Michael Sheen

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.

- Michael Sheen

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.

- Michael Sheen

Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.

- 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 what…

- Michael Sheen

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 …

- Michael Sheen

I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." T…

- Michael Sheen