Sean Penn Quotes
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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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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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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'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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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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I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.
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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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I think life's an irrational obsession.
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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 short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.
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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
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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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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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If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
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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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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
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I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.
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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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I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.
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The first instinct is love.
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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
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That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
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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.