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You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
Sean Penn
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Sean Penn
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 17
Actor
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Film Director
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Lgbtqia+ Rights Activist
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California
Sean Justin Penn
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If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
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Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.
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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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At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
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I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.
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That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
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