About Sean Penn: Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, film director and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the biopic Milk (2008).
Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with 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.
You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
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.
The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.
I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
I think we all have light and dark inside us.
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.
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
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.
On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
I'm not a breakfast eater.
