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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.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

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

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.

From Sean Penn

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

From Sean Penn

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

From Sean Penn

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

From Sean Penn

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.

From Sean Penn

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

From Sean Penn

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

From Sean Penn

Sean Penn

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