Quotes By Sean Penn

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.

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

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

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

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

I really love to make movies.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

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

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

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

I'm not a breakfast eater.

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

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

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

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

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.

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

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

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