Quotes by Sean Penn

• The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
• That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
• Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
• Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
• There's not a lot of good movies being made.
• On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
• Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
• So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
• There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
• What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
• There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
• 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.
• 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.
• My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
• 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.
• Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
• There is no re-inventing the wheel.
• I think we all have light and dark inside us.
• Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
• At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
• Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
• 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 love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
• I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
• I think life's an irrational obsession.
• Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
• I'm not a breakfast eater.
• I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
• If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers.
• If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
• 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.
• 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.
• I really love to make movies.
• You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
• In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.