Sean Penn - biography

Biography

Sean Penn is best-known for the following films:

Sean Penn Quotes

“At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.”

“I don’t have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.”

“I love acting, truly my favorite people are 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.”

“I’ve never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.”

“In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you’re not paid a lot as an actor.”

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

“Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.”

“If there’s anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers.”

“Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father.”

“I really love to make movies.”

“On any movie I’m involved with, I say what I think.”

“There’s not a lot of good movies being made.”

“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.”

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

“I think life’s an irrational obsession.”

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

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

“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.”

“Marriage ain’t easy, but it’s great most of the time.”

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

“If you’re willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you’re already ahead of the game.”

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

“I think we all have light and dark inside us.”

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

“I’m not a breakfast eater.”

“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.”

“My favorite thing to do is not act - it’s that simple.”

“Oh, I’m a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.”

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

“There is no re-inventing the wheel.”

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

“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.”

“You try to do your best at what you’re getting paid for.”

Filmography

The Actor