Sean Penn famous quotes

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

#Love #Believe #Love You

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
-- Sean Penn

#Wife #Lines #Bottom

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone
-- Sean Penn

#Eye #Gay #Grandchildren

I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.
-- Sean Penn

#Photography #Thinking #Disease

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
-- Sean Penn

#Sarcastic #Peers #Disgusting

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
-- Sean Penn

#Inspiration #Being Ignored #Individuality

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
-- Sean Penn

#Magic #Innocence #Kind

I really love to make movies.
-- Sean Penn

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
-- Sean Penn

#Thinking #Minutes

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
-- Sean Penn

#Daughter #Parenting #Firsts

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

#Speak #Offers

When everything gets answered, it's fake.
-- Sean Penn

#Fake

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.
-- Sean Penn

#Want #Shame

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
-- Sean Penn

#Mouths #Said #Bigs

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
-- Sean Penn

#Simple #Favorites Things #My Favorite

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
-- Sean Penn

#Games #Two #Willing

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

#Real #Love Is #People

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
-- Sean Penn

#Mistake #Tolerance #Nikon

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

#Drama #Emotional #Roles

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
-- Sean Penn

#Actors #Broke

I'm not a breakfast eater.
-- Sean Penn

#Breakfast

I think we all have light and dark inside us.
-- Sean Penn

#Dark #Thinking #Light

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
-- Sean Penn

#Children #Father #Hands

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
-- Sean Penn

#Watches #Would Be #Want

I think life's an irrational obsession.
-- Sean Penn

#Thinking #Obsession #Irrational

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

#Summer #Laughing #Looks

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
-- Sean Penn

#Marriage #Easy

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
-- Sean Penn

#Mean #Romantic Love #Levels

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.
-- Sean Penn

#Fans #Justin

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
-- Sean Penn

#Directors #Actors #Excitement

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
-- Sean Penn

#Real #Worry #Car

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
-- Sean Penn

#People #Acting #Actors

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.
-- Sean Penn

#Successful #Thinking #Roles

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

#Actors #Shampoo #Modeling

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
-- Sean Penn

#Good Movie #Fans #Matter

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.
-- Sean Penn

#Thinking #People #World

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
-- Sean Penn

#Light #Way #Made

Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
-- Sean Penn

#Fulfilling

I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to...
-- Sean Penn

#Thinking #Forever #Soul

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. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.
-- Sean Penn

#House #Anarchy #Kind

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
-- Sean Penn

#Writing #Acting #Different

There's not a lot of good movies being made.
-- Sean Penn

#Good Movie #Made

You tolerate me. You really tolerate me.
-- Sean Penn

#Tolerate

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
-- Sean Penn

#Men #Acting #Made

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
-- Sean Penn

#Theatre #Directors #Excitement

There is no re-inventing the wheel.
-- Sean Penn

#Wheels

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

#America #Gone #Rats

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
-- Sean Penn

#Directing Movies #Directors #Actors

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.
-- Sean Penn

#Haiti #Kind

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

#Art #People #Hunger

A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.
-- Sean Penn

#Impact #Trying #Narrative

When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.
-- Sean Penn

#Strong #Believe #Opposites

One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.
-- Sean Penn

#Believe #Thinking #People

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

#Giving #Want #Loan

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

#Nebraska #Shooting #Yeah

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
-- Sean Penn

#Sacrifice #Medicine #Soldier

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

#Political #Good Movie #News

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

#Writing #Thinking #Two

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.
-- Sean Penn

#Directors #Different #Roles

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

#Growing Up #Events #Intimate

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

#Struggle #Add #Actors

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine
-- Sean Penn

#Money #Buzz #Needs

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

#Trying

I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.
-- Sean Penn

#Dream #Children #Believe

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
-- Sean Penn

#Thinking

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
-- Sean Penn

#Life And Death #Madness #Handguns

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
-- Sean Penn

#Men #Thinking #Differences

I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
-- Sean Penn

#Blessed #People #President

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro,
-- Sean Penn

#President #Venezuela #Revolution

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

#Fear #Stage #Stage Fright