Michael Sheen

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

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 can be a lazy dresser.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.

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.

I think it's quite tough for people like Tom Cruise where you can never really get away from being Tom Cruise in something. You're so familiar to people and people know so much about your life.

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.