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 whats real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. – 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 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
I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. Thats why were here. Its at the heart of what it is to be a human being. Its the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But its difficult. – Michael Sheen