Sean Penn Quotes

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Sean Penn

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 17, 1960

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

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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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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

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I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

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I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

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I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

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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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There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

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Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

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Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

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Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

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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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You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

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Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.

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There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

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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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