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" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "
Sean Penn
Stage
Never
Much
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" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "
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" When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. "
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" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "
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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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" 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'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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" 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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" 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 can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "
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Most
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" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "
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" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "
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" 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. "
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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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