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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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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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.
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I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.
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'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.
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One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.
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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.
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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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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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Family makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive... I'm feeling my life, which I didn't always do partly because I'd be drunk a lot.
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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.