Sean Penn Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

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.

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

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

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

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

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

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

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

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

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

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

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

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

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

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

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

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

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

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!

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

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

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

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

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.

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

The first instinct is love.

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

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

In any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

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

There are not a lot of good movies being made.

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