Sean Penn Quotes - Page 4

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• On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, Involved

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• Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio [for Chris] and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.

  Sean Penn

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.

  Sean Penn

  Night, Thinking, Humanity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Sean Penn

  Strong, Believe, Opposites

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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.

  Sean Penn

  Organization, Issues, Haiti

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not a breakfast eater.

  Sean Penn

  Breakfast

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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."

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.

  Sean Penn

  Hurt, Lying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.

  Sean Penn

  Exercise, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

  Sean Penn

  Guy, Energy, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

  Sean Penn

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, Forever, Soul

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• If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

  Sean Penn

  Games, Two, Willing

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• Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.

  Sean Penn

  Fulfilling

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• I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

  Sean Penn

  Good Movie, Fans, Matter

  "New Again: Sean Penn". Interview with Melissa Belk, Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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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

  Actors, Shampoo, Modeling

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• I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  "Penn, O'Reilly Trade Barbs". abcnews.go.com. January 3.

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• 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

  Summer, Laughing, Looks

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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

  Successful, Thinking, Roles

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• Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

  Sean Penn

  Men, Acting, Yeah

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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.

  Sean Penn

  Blessed, People, President

  "Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez's Death: 'I Lost a Friend'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 5, 2013.

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• It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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

  Fleeing, Stories, Controversial

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.

  Sean Penn

  Regret, War, Drug

  Source: hotair.com

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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.

  Sean Penn

  Couple, Real, Moving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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