Sean Penn Quotes
"That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Romantic)
"Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Government, Actions)
"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine."
- Sean Penn
(Related: American, May, Medicine, Nation, Soldiers)
"There's not a lot of good movies being made."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Movies, Being)
"On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think."
- Sean Penn
"Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things."
- Sean Penn
"So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Life, Society)
"There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Movies, Excitement, Theatre)
"What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts."
- Sean Penn
"There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Being, Mediocrity)
"Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Movies)
"Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Movies, Help, Summer)
"My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Act, Favorite)
"I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Work, Successful, Actor)
"Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Time, State)
"There is no re-inventing the wheel."
- Sean Penn
"I think we all have light and dark inside us."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Light)
"Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Acting, Man, Walking)
"At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Audiences, Want)
"Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Father, Interest, Now)
"I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Actor, Excitement)
"I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Love)
"I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Love, People, Acting, Actors, Favorite)
"I think you start to prepare the minute you read something."
- Sean Penn
"I think life's an irrational obsession."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Life, Obsession)
"Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Marriage, Time)
"I'm not a breakfast eater."
- Sean Penn
"I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much."
- Sean Penn
"If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Business)
"If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Thoughts)
"Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Love, People)
"It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Drama, Nothing)
"I really love to make movies."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Love, Movies)
"You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for."
- Sean Penn
"In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor."
- Sean Penn
(Related: Movies, Actor)