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I get a little scared of words like maturity.
Sean Penn -
The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.
Sean Penn
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.
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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
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That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
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I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
Sean Penn
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Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio for Chris and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
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It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
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The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.
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I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.
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It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.
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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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I really love to make movies.
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I think life's an irrational obsession.
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You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!
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Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.
Sean Penn -
A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.
Sean Penn