Sean Penn Quotes

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

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• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Job
  • Inspiration

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Money
  • Help

• The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

  

  Questlove
  • Team
  • Support
  • Football

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Space
  • Comfort

• I'm always challenged by someone.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Challenged

• When you're on top, you're on top.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Top

• When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

  

  Ice T
  • Business
  • Start
  • Fruit

• I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Terrible
  • Turned
  • After

• The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Wealth
  • Key
  • U.S.

• Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Church
  • Founders

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter
  • Up
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• The graphics are the really freaky thing. I have two stepsons who are really good at the games, and they saw the likenesses. They had a gleam in their eyes, and I could see that the reason they liked it was because they could play to a point and then just stop, and I would get wasted. I think there's a certain amount of joy in, like, 'Let's watch him get shot again! Do it again!' You can make him really get riddled.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Eyes

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

  

  Rolando McClain
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Nothing

• I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Stop
  • Acting
  • Dead Man Walking