Sean Penn Quotes
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I get a little scared of words like maturity.
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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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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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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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Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
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Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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I really love to make movies.
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You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
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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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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.