3 December 2020 Michael Sheen I’m a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy – not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Sheen You know, we’re each the hero of our own story and we perceive what’s going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, ‘Well, this is my story, and I’m the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.’
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Sheen When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I’m older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Sheen When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they’re all about change.
3 December 2020 Michael Sheen My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Sheen I’m a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
3 December 2020 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.
