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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. "
Sean Penn
Done
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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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" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "
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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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" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "
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" I think life's an irrational obsession. "
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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 really love to make movies. "
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" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "
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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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" 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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" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "
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" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
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" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "
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" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "
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" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "
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" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "
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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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" 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 am a limousine liberal. "
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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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" 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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