Quotes by Robin Penn

• No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.
• If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.
• If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
• Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
• It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.
• It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
• It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
• Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
• I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.
• Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.
• Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
• Sean's a great, great writer.
• Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.
• Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.
• We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.
• My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.
• Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.
• When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
• I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.
• After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
• Everyone has the answers.
• Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
• I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.
• I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.
• I have always been a good mimic.
• I have such a little face.
• I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.
• I like movies that make you think.
• I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.
• I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.
• I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
• I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.
• I just love getting dirty.