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I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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I think life's an irrational obsession.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
Sean Penn
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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
Sean Penn
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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
Sean Penn
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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
Sean Penn
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The first instinct is love.
Sean Penn
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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.
Sean Penn
