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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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" 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. "

Sean Penn

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" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "

" '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

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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. "

" 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. "

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" 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. "

" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" 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. "

" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

" 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. "

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" 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. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

Sean Penn

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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. "

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "