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 points actually help, and you realise thats what myths are for. Its for human beings to process their experience in extremis. – Michael Sheen
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mothers into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence. – Michael Sheen
I think Im becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose Ill always feel slightly more at home on stage. Its more of an actors medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you. – Michael Sheen
Id 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. – Michael Sheen
I hate it when people dont recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to mens work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal – mens writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. – Ani DiFranco