Sean Penn Quotes
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Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.
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Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
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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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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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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
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I get a little scared of words like maturity.
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I think life's an irrational obsession.
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
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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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I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.
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It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.
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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 really love to make movies.
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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.
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
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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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A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.
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That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
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You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!