Quotes By Sean Penn

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not a breakfast eater.

I really love to make movies.

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