Sean Penn Quotes
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I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.
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If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.
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That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
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Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.
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So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
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I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
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Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
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One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.
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The heartbreak that it might not happen wasn't something that I wanted to face with any more weight. Then, when I got the call to go ahead I never thought for a second as I was approaching it who I would get - that would come later. Again, I think the idea was that I now had the rights to make the movie and I can start writing it but if I have to wait another 10 years before I find an actor that's right for it, I'd be very happy to do that.
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You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.
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I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
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A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.
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The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.
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Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
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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.
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.
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I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
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There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.
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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.