Michael Sheen

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

"When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change."

"When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all."

"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."

"We see death constantly on film."

"For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it."