Sean Penn Quotes (44 Quotes)

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers.

I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

It varies from role to role and the type of the piece and the people you're working with. All those factors contribute to how you function on a movie.

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.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

I'm a little bit computer illiterate.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to...

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

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

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've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

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

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

If I win the lottery, I'm gonna direct three to four pictures every four to five years, instead of one - and there won't be time to act.

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. Accepting his Independent Spirit Award

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

I really love to make movies.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.