Robin Wright Penn Quotes


"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Day, Sleep)

"If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Feeling, Nothing)

"Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Fantasy, Kids, Romantic)

"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Fate)

"It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?"
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Beauty, Love, Poetry, Act)

"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Imagination, Nothing)

"Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Brother, Memories, Mosquitoes)

"I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge."
- Robin Wright Penn
"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Mother, Confidence, Independence, Sense)

"Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Nothing)

"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."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Acting, Actor, Queen)

"Sean's a great, great writer."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Writer)

"Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Movies, Being, Provocative)

"Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: People)

"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Act, Children)

"My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Favorite)

"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Business, Restaurants)

"When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Money, Travel, Past)

"I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do."
- Robin Wright Penn
"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Choices)

"Everyone has the answers."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Answers)

"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Faith, Confidence, Hollywood, Walking)

"I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Successful, Hollywood)

"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Work, Example)

"I have always been a good mimic."
- Robin Wright Penn
"I have such a little face."
- Robin Wright Penn
"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Want)

"I like movies that make you think."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Movies)

"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: End)

"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Film, Want)

"I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Work, Acting, Actor, Information, Questions)

"I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself."
- Robin Wright Penn
"I just love getting dirty."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Love)

"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."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Idea, Being)