Quotes By Sean Penn

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 love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

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

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.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I really love to make movies.

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

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 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.

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.