Sean Penn Quotes

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

Sean Penn

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• It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Existence

• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Good
  • Been
  • Ourselves

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Time
  • Famous

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

  

  Yaphet Kotto
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Either

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Young

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Different
  • Learned
  • Relic

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Her

• I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Good
  • Think
  • English

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Work
  • Decision

• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Look
  • Too

• I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Like
  • Couple
  • Years

• Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

  

  George Vancouver
  • Attention
  • Advantages
  • Breeze

• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Model

• There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Thing
  • Point
  • Pencil

• As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • People
  • Different

• My father was a doctor, but his passion was making cars, and he was also very good at carpentry. He was a gem, and I don't blame him for not understanding me. When I told him that I would be leaving, he checked his pocket and took out 100-rupee note and gave it to me. He did not like that I was leaving, yet he gave me the money.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Father
  • Doctor
  • Carpentry

• I get a little scared of words like maturity.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Words
  • Scared
  • Maturity