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" I think life's an irrational obsession. "
Sean Penn
Think
Life
Irrational
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" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "
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" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "
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" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "
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" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "
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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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" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "
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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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" 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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" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "
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" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "
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" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "
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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 am a limousine liberal. "
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" 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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" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "
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" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "
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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'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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" 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. "
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" I really love to make movies. "
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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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" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "
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" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "
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" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "
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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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