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" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "
Sean Penn
Choose
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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 consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "
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" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "
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You
" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "
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" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "
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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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" 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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Tell
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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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" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "
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Shooting
Time
" 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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Know
Being Lied To
" 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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Growing Up
Growing
" 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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Real
Try
Best
" 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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Like
Loan
Back
" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "
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Wonderful
Mediocrity
Being Ignored
" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "
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Marriage
Most
Easy
" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "
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Favorite
Act
Thing
" 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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" You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle. "
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You
Live
" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "
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Actor
Director
Working
" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "
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Stage
Never
Much
" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "
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Doing
People
Many
" 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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Character
True
Rhythm
" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "
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Man
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Walking
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Minute
Prepare
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" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "
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Want
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Living