Sean Penn Quotes

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Sean Penn

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 17, 1960

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

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I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

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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.

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Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

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I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

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Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

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When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

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'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

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I really love to make movies.

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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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There's not a lot of good movies being made.

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If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

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Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

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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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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

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It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

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