Sean Penn Quotes

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Sean Penn

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• It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Fall
  • Doing
  • Bird

• Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Fall
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Courage
  • Act
  • React

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • City
  • Proud
  • Paris

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Nice
  • Crazy
  • Swimming

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Good
  • Fun

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Moment
  • Diamonds

• Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
  • Internet
  • Rules

• Comic books are a big passion of mine.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Big

• Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • God
  • Long
  • Respect

• I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mind

• I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Nice

• I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Fun

• I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you're spending time with that person that's special, I think that's a great Valentine's Day.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

  

  John Francis Daley

• How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

  

  John Gay
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Cheating

• Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Father
  • Interest
  • Child-rearing