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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 think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
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I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
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If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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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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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
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I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.
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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
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Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
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The first instinct is love.
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
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Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.
Sean Penn
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As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.
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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
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It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
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Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.
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Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director.
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My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.
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You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
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When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
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Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
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I get a little scared of words like maturity.
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