Sean Penn Quotes
On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.
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Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing.
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'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.
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It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.
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I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
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On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.
