Michael Sheen Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
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For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.
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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
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Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.
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I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.
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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.
