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Explore more quotes by Robin Wright Penn

"Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting."

"I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl."

"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot."

"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."

"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."

"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."

"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."
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"Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it's pointed at someone else."

"To a vampire, there is only selfishness."

"In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown."

"A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com."

"Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest."

"The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I think the goblin who successfully offs me gets to be king."

"If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick."

"Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth."

"What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?"

"They passed a couple of guys making a bronze windup toy. At least that's what it looked like. It was a six-inch-tall centaur-half man, half horse-armed with a miniature bow. One of the campers cranked the centaur's tail, and it whirred to life. It galloped across the table, yelling, "Die, mosquito! Die, mosquito! and shooting everything in sight."
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