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Bukowski said, I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly.
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Sean Penn
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 17
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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 like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
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The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.
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There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.
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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
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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.
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Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
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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 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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Haiti, like any place, has its security problems it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
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On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.
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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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