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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. "
Sean Penn
Since
America
Been
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" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "
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" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "
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Interest
" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "
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Most
Easy
" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "
Sean Penn
Love
Teens
Movies
" 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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You
" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "
Sean Penn
Stage
Never
Much
" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "
Sean Penn
Character
True
Rhythm
" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "
Sean Penn
Things
Lot
Said
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Movies
Television
Actor
" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "
Sean Penn
Say
Think
Movie
" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "
Sean Penn
Different
Acting
Process
" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "
Sean Penn
Favorite
Act
Thing
" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "
Sean Penn
Potential
Anger
Just
" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
Sean Penn
Am
I Am
Justin
" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "
Sean Penn
Reciprocal
Like
Love
" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "
Sean Penn
Love
Acting
Favorite People
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Think
Work
Actor
" 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
Good
Home
Family
" 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
" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "
Sean Penn
Paid
Try
You
" 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
" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "
Sean Penn
Doing
People
Many
" I think life's an irrational obsession. "
Sean Penn
Think
Life
Irrational
" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "
Sean Penn
Speak
Society
Own
" 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
Doing
Help
" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "
Sean Penn
Movies
Good
Lot
" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "
Sean Penn
People
Strength
Comfort
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Struggle
You
Live
" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "
Sean Penn
Actions
Government
Line
" 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. "
Sean Penn
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Loan
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