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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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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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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Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.
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'Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.' ... They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
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It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.
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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.
