Sean Penn Quotes
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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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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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I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to.
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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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If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.
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Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
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That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
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On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
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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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Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.
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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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If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
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I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
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Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
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Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.
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I really love to make movies.
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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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There's not a lot of good movies being made.
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I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.
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There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.
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I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
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I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
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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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There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.
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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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When everything gets answered, it's fake.
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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 think we all have light and dark inside us.
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