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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. "
Sean Penn
Smart
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" We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. "
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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 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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" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "
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" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "
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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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Good
Home
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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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You
News
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" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "
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Movies
Television
Actor
" 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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Struggle
You
Live
" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "
Sean Penn
Actions
Government
Line
" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "
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Reciprocal
Like
Love
" I'm not a breakfast eater. "
Sean Penn
Eater
Breakfast
" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "
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Movies
Bad
Good
" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "
Sean Penn
Marriage
Most
Easy
" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "
Sean Penn
Now
Main
Interest
" 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
" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "
Sean Penn
Since
America
Been
" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "
Sean Penn
Where
You
Movies
" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "
Sean Penn
Different
Acting
Process
" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "
Sean Penn
Think
Minute
Prepare
" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "
Sean Penn
I Can
Situation
See
" 'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head. "
Sean Penn
Me
Down
Easy
" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "
Sean Penn
Dark
Think
Light
" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
Sean Penn
Am
I Am
Justin
" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "
Sean Penn
Things
Lot
Said
" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "
Sean Penn
Camera
Tolerance
Myself
" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "
Sean Penn
Actor
Director
Working
" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "
Sean Penn
Out
Always
Leave
" 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
" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "
Sean Penn
Wife
You
Love