Quotes By Sean Penn

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

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.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

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

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

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

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

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.