Sean Penn
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic Riverand the biopic Milk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 August 1960
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.
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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.
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It's human to want to get your hands in it.
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There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.
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I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
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I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
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Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
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Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.
In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
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We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
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Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.
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It's a tough story, but I think it has a lot more than grimness to offer...it's what we are experiencing in our lifetime.
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A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.
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I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.