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" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "
Sean Penn
Wife
You
Love
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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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Movies
Bad
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" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "
Sean Penn
Respect
Tell
You
" I think life's an irrational obsession. "
Sean Penn
Think
Life
Irrational
" 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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Love
Audience
You
" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
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Am
I Am
Justin
" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "
Sean Penn
I Can
Situation
See
" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "
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Dark
Think
Light
" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "
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Doing
People
Many
" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "
Sean Penn
Director
Movies
Living
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Moment
House
Family
" 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 really love to make movies. "
Sean Penn
Really
Movies
Make
" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "
Sean Penn
Say
Think
Movie
" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "
Sean Penn
Where
You
Movies
" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "
Sean Penn
Different
Acting
Process
" 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. "
Sean Penn
People
Practice
Good
" 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
" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "
Sean Penn
Family
People
Morning
" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "
Sean Penn
Things
Lot
Said
" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "
Sean Penn
Want
Know
Freedom
" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "
Sean Penn
Choose
Speak
Movies
" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "
Sean Penn
Paid
Try
You
" 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
" '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
Me
Down
Easy
" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "
Sean Penn
Man
Stop
Walking
" 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
" I'm not a breakfast eater. "
Sean Penn
Eater
Breakfast
" 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
Nothing
Any
" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "
Sean Penn
Would
Stage
Want
" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "
Sean Penn
Acting
Craft
Learn