Sean Penn Quotes
- All Quotes
-
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.
-
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
-
On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
-
The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
-
The first instinct is love.
-
The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
-
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.
-
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
-
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
-
If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
-
My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.
-
I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
-
I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
-
My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
-
If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
-
I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.
-
I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.
-
I think life's an irrational obsession.
-
Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
-
Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
-
I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
-
Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
-
When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
-
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.