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" I'm not a breakfast eater. "
Sean Penn
Eater
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "
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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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" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "
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" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
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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 consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "
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" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "
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" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "
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" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "
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" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "
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" In my teens, I fell in love with the 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 think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "
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" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "
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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. "
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