Michael Sheen Quotes

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

Michael Sheen

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• I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Fall
  • Jam
  • Eleven

• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Done
  • Serious

• If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Home
  • Speak

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • You
  • Times
  • Become

• 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Power
  • Morality

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Future
  • Past
  • Question

• From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Years
  • Baby
  • Old

• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Hope

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Films

• I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Me

• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Men
  • Fashion

• I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • School
  • Bad

• I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Artist
  • Learn
  • Skills

• Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.

  

  Brian Cox
  • People
  • Art
  • Guy

• It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.

  

  Lucien Engelen
  • People

• Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • People
  • Shows
  • Egotistical