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I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

Michael Sheen

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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
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Football
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My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
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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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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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Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.
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We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.
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The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.
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I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.
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Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and allow you, in some ways, to tell stories and reveal things about our lives that would be harder to take, in a more realistic setting.
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Having said that, what I think we found, in doing the show, and in life, generally, is that the more you try to separate sex from everything else, it's impossible. You can't. The act of observation affects the actual experiment, and we see that in this.
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Everyone deserves compassion.
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With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.
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It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.
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So, if they're coming in and having to do scenes that involve nudity or sexuality, in some way, the utmost important thing is that everyone feels comfortable and safe. If there's any gray area, that's going to be a problem.
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I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
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I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.
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We see death constantly on film.
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You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.
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