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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
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Sean Penn
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 17
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Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.
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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
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As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.
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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.
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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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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.
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I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.
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