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Sean Penn
American
Actor
Born:
Aug 17
,
1960
Actor
Love
Me
People
Think
You
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When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
Sean Penn
Confidence
Somebody
Single
Intimate
Niro
Out
Had
He
Come
Like
Mission
Robert
Robert De Niro
De Niro
Because
Cultural
Up
Movie
Growing
Event
Growing Up
I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
Sean Penn
Character
Degree
Energy
Live
Every
Some
True
Rhythm
Worked
Actor
'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.
Sean Penn
Time
Me
Down
Runner
Easy
Indian
Write
Had
Head
Pictures
Been
Years
Eight
Sat
Thing
By The Time
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
Sean Penn
Good
Matter
Good Movie
Bad
Allen
Bad Movie
Like
His
Huge
Just
Movie
Fan
Woody
Woody Allen
Movies
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
Sean Penn
Writing
Directing
Very
Close
Different
Process
Acting
Thing
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.
Sean Penn
Love
Time
You
Struggle
Tell
Guy
More
Struggled
Fell
Period
Audience
Always
Than
Movie
Cannot
Theater
Then
Now
Actor
Ever
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
You
Respect
Tell
Would
Shampoo
Ads
Know
Modeling
Happen
Prefer
Less
Actor
There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
Sean Penn
Strength
Character
People
Never
Comfort
Experienced
Who
Large
Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.
Sean Penn
You
Kind
Haiti
Gets
Hold
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
Sean Penn
Sense
Back
Complete
Would
More
Highest
Highest Form
Common
Form
Common Sense
Might
Turning
Aspire
Stardom
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
Sean Penn
Director
Better
Living
Though
Would
Directing
Make
Than
Movies
Prefer
Certainly
Actor
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.
Sean Penn
Me
Strong
Made
First
Lasting
Television
About
He
Hal
Terms
Impression
Being
Movies
Actor
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
Sean Penn
Heart
Book
Somebody
Out
Makes
Always
Leave
Behind
Movie
Frustrated
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