Sean Penn Quotes
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.
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I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.
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In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
