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" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
Sean Penn
Am
I Am
Justin
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" I am a limousine liberal. "
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Liberal
I Am
Am
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Truth
Know
Being Lied To
" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "
Sean Penn
Actor
Director
Working
" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "
Sean Penn
Feel
You
Too
" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "
Sean Penn
Wonderful
Mediocrity
Being Ignored
" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "
Sean Penn
More
Aspire
Common Sense
" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "
Sean Penn
Favorite
Act
Thing
" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "
Sean Penn
Paid
Try
You
" I really love to make movies. "
Sean Penn
Really
Movies
Make
" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "
Sean Penn
Dark
Think
Light
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Feel
My Life
Loved
" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "
Sean Penn
Wheel
" 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. "
Sean Penn
People
Practice
Good
" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "
Sean Penn
Hold
You
Gets
" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "
Sean Penn
Would
Stage
Want
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Movies
Two
Think
" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "
Sean Penn
Wife
You
Love
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Family
People
Morning
" 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. "
Sean Penn
You
Look
Movies
" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "
Sean Penn
Ahead
Thoughts
Two
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Love
Audience
You
" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "
Sean Penn
Man
Stop
Walking
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Done
Nothing
Any
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Respect
Tell
You
" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "
Sean Penn
Love
Acting
Favorite People
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Like
Loan
Back
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Inside
You
Different
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Always
Way
Things
" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "
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Think
Minute
Prepare
" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "
Sean Penn
Soldiers
American
Innocent