Sean Penn Quotes

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.

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

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

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

I'm not a breakfast eater.

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

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

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

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

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

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

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

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 we all have light and dark inside us.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

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

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

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

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

I really love to make movies.

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

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

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

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

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.

When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

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

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

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

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 get a little scared of words like maturity.

On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

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

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.