Michael Sheen quote: "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."

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa...
MICHAEL SHEEN

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, ...
MICHAEL SHEEN

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

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting...
MICHAEL SHEEN

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

I can be a lazy dresser.
MICHAEL SHEEN

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.
MICHAEL SHEEN

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.
MICHAEL SHEEN

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.
MICHAEL SHEEN

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and po...
MICHAEL SHEEN

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We...
MICHAEL SHEEN

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural re...
MICHAEL SHEEN

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the ...
MICHAEL SHEEN

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanaly...
MICHAEL SHEEN

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.
MICHAEL SHEEN

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
MICHAEL SHEEN

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blo...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time -...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dump...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his...
MARTIN SHEEN

I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different hea...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!
CHARLIE SHEEN

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it ...
MARTIN SHEEN

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
MARTIN SHEEN

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.
CHARLIE SHEEN

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've go...
CHARLIE SHEEN

We wind up in cells of our own making when we're not generous, loving, compassionate, and forgiving....
MARTIN SHEEN

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it...
MARTIN SHEEN

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we'r...
MARTIN SHEEN

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin can...
CHARLIE SHEEN

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.
CHARLIE SHEEN

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlington...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in num...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big.
CHARLIE SHEEN

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholi...
CHARLIE SHEEN

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is mor...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
CHARLIE SHEEN

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story e...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I...
MARTIN SHEEN

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There&...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.
CHARLIE SHEEN

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops b...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some...
MARTIN SHEEN

There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask w...
MARTIN SHEEN

He was my brother; that is the most I can say. I just adored him. It's too big a hole.
MARTIN SHEEN

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless ch...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I had an epiphany later on what the sports highlight is for. The sports highlight is for parents, pe...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.
CHARLIE SHEEN

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But t...
CHARLIE SHEEN

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from j...
CHARLIE SHEEN

It's the first time I got dumped in my life,
CHARLIE SHEEN

I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't alwa...
MARTIN SHEEN

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
MARTIN SHEEN

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain prod...
CHARLIE SHEEN

There's always a chance for that (reconciliation) as long as two people are still in the game ... I ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm tired of pretending I'm not a total bitchin' rock star from Mars, and people can't figure me out...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry at my fingertips.
CHARLIE SHEEN

My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.
CHARLIE SHEEN

My conduct is bitchin’
CHARLIE SHEEN

Oh, that. I just do that for the extra money, and to satisfy my male need to kill and win.
CHARLIE SHEEN

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
MARTIN SHEEN

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.
MARTIN SHEEN

You may have mistaken this for your meeting of the ignorant tight-asses club but in this building, w...
MARTIN SHEEN

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.
MARTIN SHEEN

We in the cast knew we had something special in this series. The big question was whether or not it ...
MARTIN SHEEN

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
CHARLIE SHEEN

Don't judge me until you've walked a mile in my shoes, snorted a mile of my coke, drank a vial of my...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I’ve got tiger blood, man.
CHARLIE SHEEN

Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your arms.
CHARLIE SHEEN

I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.
CHARLIE SHEEN

Duh, Winning!
CHARLIE SHEEN

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. You...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I deeply regret her response to my request for the court to decide what's best for our children has ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer
CHARLIE SHEEN

For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

It's the first time I got dumped in my life. I think the one thing I would point to as a primary rea...
CHARLIE SHEEN

as long as two people are still in the game.
CHARLIE SHEEN

I've never attempted to figure that out, but if you want me to take a wild guess, I'll say [he's sle...
CHARLIE SHEEN

There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach others what we know, and to ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
CHARLIE SHEEN

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funn...
CHARLIE SHEEN

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.
CHARLIE SHEEN

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that&#...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm bi-winning. I win here, I win there.
CHARLIE SHEEN

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm here and I'm ready. They're not. Bring it.
CHARLIE SHEEN

You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence...
MARTIN SHEEN

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through acces...
CHARLIE SHEEN

From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either i...
CHARLIE SHEEN

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Noth...
MARTIN SHEEN

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ord...
FULTON JOHN SHEEN

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is ...
FULTON JOHN SHEEN

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
FULTON J. SHEEN

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
FULTON JOHN SHEEN

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
FULTON J. SHEEN

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
FULTON JOHN SHEEN

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrat...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
FULTON JOHN SHEEN

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
FULTON JOHN SHEEN

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it wai...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEEN

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reas...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
FULTON J. SHEEN

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
FULTON J. SHEEN

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
--FULTON J. SHEEN

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs w...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
FULTON J. SHEEN

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them w...
FULTON J. SHEEN

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were...
FULTON J. SHEEN

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful m...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perf...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often prai...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The emp...
FULTON J. SHEEN

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's lov...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view o...
FULTON J. SHEEN

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every wor...
FULTON J. SHEEN

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.
FULTON J. SHEEN

You should realize that the community with which you deal is not the one of 42nd Street and Broadway...
FULTON J. SHEEN

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEEN

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
FULTON J. SHEEN

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of...
FULTON J. SHEEN

We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEEN

As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is...
FULTON J. SHEEN

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religiou...
FULTON J. SHEEN

The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
FULTON J. SHEEN

If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but w...
FULTON J. SHEEN

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
FULTON J. SHEEN

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ult...
FULTON J. SHEEN

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
FULTON J. SHEEN

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...
FULTON J. SHEEN

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrend...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...
FULTON J. SHEEN

When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...
FULTON J. SHEEN

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings;...
FULTON J. SHEEN

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kin...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers fo...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic...
FULTON J. SHEEN

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
FULTON J. SHEEN

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understa...
FULTON J. SHEEN

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellec...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Man is incurably curious.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
FULTON J. SHEEN

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
FULTON J. SHEEN

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.
FULTON J. SHEEN

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.
FULTON J. SHEEN

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is n...
FULTON J. SHEEN

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the paren...
FULTON J. SHEEN

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks he...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are alw...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justif...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEEN

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is...
FULTON J. SHEEN

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is...
FULTON J. SHEEN

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emoti...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of...
FULTON J. SHEEN

In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptati...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
FULTON J. SHEEN

All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine r...
FULTON J. SHEEN

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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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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