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1 think, you know, if the right project kind of came along that I would be able to direct, I would love to do that.
-- Sean Penn

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
-- Sean Penn

But I'm never again going to do a movie as an actor where I'm enjoying myself. It's not fun, and it doesn't have to be.
-- Sean Penn

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
-- Sean Penn

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
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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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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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I really love to make movies.
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I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.
-- Sean Penn

I think life's an irrational obsession.
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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 think we all have light and dark inside us.
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
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I'm a little bit computer illiterate.
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I'm not a breakfast eater.
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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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If I win the lottery, I'm gonna direct three to four pictures every four to five years, instead of one - and there won't be time to act.
-- Sean Penn

If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers.
-- Sean Penn

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
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In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
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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.
-- Sean Penn

It varies from role to role and the type of the piece and the people you're working with. All those factors contribute to how you function on a movie.
-- Sean Penn

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
-- Sean Penn

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
-- Sean Penn

My daughter is changing so rapidly now that her likes are different every day, and I love being involved with that.
-- Sean Penn

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
-- Sean Penn

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
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Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
-- Sean Penn

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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Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
-- Sean Penn

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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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
-- Sean Penn

There is no re-inventing the wheel.
-- Sean Penn

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
-- Sean Penn

There's not a lot of good movies being made.
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Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.
-- Sean Penn

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.
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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
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Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
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You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
-- Sean Penn

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