Sean Penn Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
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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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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 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 life's an irrational obsession.
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The first instinct is love.
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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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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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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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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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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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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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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
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Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
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I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.
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It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.