Top 100 Quotes About Sean Penn
#1. That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
Sean Penn
#2. Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.
Trey Parker
#3. As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.
Matthew Lillard
#4. I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
Penn Jillette
#5. In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
Sean Penn
#6. Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
Sean Penn
#7. I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
Sean Penn
#8. Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.
Sean Penn
#9. We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
Sean Penn
#10. I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.
Trey Parker
#11. I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
Sean Penn
#12. All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine
Sean Penn
#13. I think life's an irrational obsession.
Sean Penn
#14. As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#15. At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
Sean Penn
#16. I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
Sean Penn
#17. There's no way you ask Sean Penn a question and then, you're gonna be HUGE !
Louis C.K.
#18. My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
Sean Penn
#19. Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
Sean Penn
#20. There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
Derek Magyar
#21. Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
Justin Kirk
#22. I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
Sean Penn
#23. The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
Sean Penn
#24. I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
Sean Penn
#25. I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
Sean Penn
#26. In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
Sean Penn
#27. 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.
Sean Penn
#28. Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.
Sean Penn
#29. Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
Sean Penn
#30. I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I doing here? I don't belong here'. I felt like it could all be taken away.
Amy Adams
#31. Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.
Sean Penn
#32. There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.
Sean Penn
#33. There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
Sean Penn
#34. Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.
Channing Tatum
#35. You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
Sean Penn
#37. So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
Sean Penn
#38. Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
Sean Penn
#40. I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
Josh Lucas
#41. You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
Sean Penn
#42. 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.
Sean Penn
#43. There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.
Sean Penn
#44. I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.
Jolene Blalock
#45. And dressed her [Madonna] up like a turkey. After I read that stuff, I thought long and hard about what one would do to dress someone up like a turkey. And I nailed it. I figured you've got to get out the Playtex glove, blow it up and put the glove over the head.
Sean Penn
#46. Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'
Jay Leno
#47. I've always been drawn to stories involving brothers, which started with my first viewing of Sean Penn's, 'The Indian Runner.' This subsequently lead to my working with my two brothers, Scott & Brad. I couldn't imagine a greater gift in the business.
Dean Winters
#48. There is no re-inventing the wheel.
Sean Penn
#49. When I did Sean Penn's movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I'd come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn't until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.
Mickey Rourke
#50. It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.
Sean Penn
#51. I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.
Sean Penn
#52. The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
Sean Penn
#53. Beauty doesn't ask for attention
Sean Penn
#54. People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#55. Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director.
Sean Penn
#56. Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
Sean Penn
#57. I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
Sean Penn
#58. That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
Sean Penn
#59. The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
Sean Penn
#60. With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.
David Morse
#62. Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
Sean Penn
#63. My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.
Sean Penn
#64. Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
Sean Penn
#65. There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
Ted Cruz
#66. I think we all have light and dark inside us.
Sean Penn
#67. The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.
Sean Penn
#68. Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
Sean Penn
#69. Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
Sean Penn
#70. 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.
Sean Penn
#71. 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.
Sean Penn
#72. I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.
Madonna Ciccone
#73. When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
Aidan Gillen
#74. I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
Sean Penn
#75. I'd love to work with Sean Penn or Kevin Spacey.
Devon Bostick
#76. When everything gets answered, it's fake.
Sean Penn
#77. The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.
John C. Reilly
#78. When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
Sean Penn
#79. I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.
Sean Penn
#81. The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
Sean Penn
#82. Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro,
Sean Penn
#83. I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
Sean Penn
#84. There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
Sean Penn
#85. Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.
Sean Penn
#86. That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
Sean Penn
#87. There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that (electric) chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.
Shia Labeouf
#88. I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.
Sean Penn
#89. I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.
Sean Penn
#90. I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
Sean Penn
#91. When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
Sean Penn
#92. I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
Sean Penn
#93. Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
Boyd Holbrook
#94. 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.
Sean Penn
#95. Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.
James Gray
#96. I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
Sean Penn
#97. I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.
Sean Penn
#98. Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
Sean Penn
#99. I regret my El Chapo interview didn't spark debate about the war on drugs.
Sean Penn
#100. I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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