Sean Penn Quotes

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

Sean Penn

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• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Friends

• If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Study
  • Work Hard

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

• I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Drug
  • Meaning

• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Heaven
  • Name
  • Grandmother

• Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Success
  • Like
  • Look

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Up
  • You
  • Morning

• I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Both

• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Try

• It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Like
  • Hard
  • Saying

• I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Small

• The movie business is a big gamble.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Big

• I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Art
  • Business

• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Comedy

• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • New
  • Circumstances
  • Course

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Party
  • Liberal
  • Corporate

• In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Money
  • Military
  • Year

• You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something new?" "Like bistros?" She nudged him playfully with her elbow. "No, not just that. Cities have a vibrancy, a sense of excitement that you can't find in a small town." "I don't doubt it. But to be honest, I've never been interested in things like that. I don't need those things to make me happy. A nice quiet place to unwind at the end of the day, beautiful views, a few good friends. What else is there?

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Beautiful
  • Friend
  • Honest

• When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Better

• I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time with Sean. I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • All The Time
  • Sean
  • Solid years

• In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Broke