Sean Penn Quotes
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I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to.
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
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I think we all have light and dark inside us.
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There is no re-inventing the wheel.
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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
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All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.
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When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
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There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.
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When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.
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I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.
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Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.
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Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.
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And dressed her Madonna up like a turkey. After I read that stuff, I thought long and hard about what one would do to dress someone up like a turkey. And I nailed it. I figured you've got to get out the Playtex glove, blow it up and put the glove over the head.
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At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
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I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
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It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.
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When everything gets answered, it's fake.
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I am a Justin Timberlake fan.
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The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
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Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
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I have a regret that the entire discussion with El Chapo... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.
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There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.
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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.