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My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.
Sean Penn
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Sean Penn
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 17
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Sean Justin Penn
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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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There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.
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I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
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There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
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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.
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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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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
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That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
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I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
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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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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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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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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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The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
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You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
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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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There is no re-inventing the wheel.
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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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That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
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