Sean Penn Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not a breakfast eater.

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.

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

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

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

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

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

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

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

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

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

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.

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.

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

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

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

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.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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.

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.

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

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

I really love to make movies.

Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.

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

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

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

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

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

When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.

As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

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

There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

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

Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

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

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.