Sean Penn Quotes

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Sean Penn

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 17, 1960

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

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Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

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On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

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There is no re-inventing the wheel.

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So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

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I think we all have light and dark inside us.

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I'm not a breakfast eater.

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I think life's an irrational obsession.

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Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

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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.

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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

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At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

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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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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.

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The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

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I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

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I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

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