Sean Penn Quotes

30 quotations by Sean Penn

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm not a breakfast eater.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

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 think life's an irrational obsession.

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.

I really love to make movies.

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

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

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