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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I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
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Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.
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Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
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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.
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Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.
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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.