A biography for Michael Sheenhasn’t been written yet.
“Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'”
“When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.”
“I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.”
“There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.”
“I'm not a Christian.”
“I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.”
“I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.”
“Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.”
“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.”
“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.”
“I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.”
“I've always found it hard to say sorry.”
“I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.”
“I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.”
“I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.”
“For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.”
“My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.”
“I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.”
“It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.”
“I'm happy in my life.”