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My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

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Michael Sheen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Newport
South Wales
Michael Christopher Sheen
Tragedy
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Life
Cursed
Cats
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'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
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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.
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