Quotes by Sean Penn

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).
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Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

Sean Penn

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

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

Sean Penn

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

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Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

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

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

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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.

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I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

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There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

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

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'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

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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.

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

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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.

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There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

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

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I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

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I really love to make movies.

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Author Bio

  • NameSean Penn
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, screenwriter, and film director
  • BornAugust 17, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Writer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor; Donostia Award