Sean Penn Quotes

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Sean Penn

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 17, 1960

I am a limousine liberal.

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In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

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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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There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

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In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

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Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

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I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

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Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.

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I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

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I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

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When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

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A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.

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The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

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