Sean Penn Quotes
Top 75 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sean Penn
Sean Penn Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Sean Penn on Wise Famous Quotes.
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
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.
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.
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.
I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
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 live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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.
I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.