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
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
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
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. Its the best thing about being alive. – Michael Sheen
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov