Sean Penn Quotes
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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
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On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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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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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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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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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'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
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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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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with 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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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
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Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio for Chris and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.
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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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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
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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 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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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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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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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
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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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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.