Sean Penn Quotes

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

There are not a lot of good movies being made.

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

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

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

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

The first instinct is love.

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

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.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

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

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

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

You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!

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.

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

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

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

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

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

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

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

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 get a little scared of words like maturity.

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

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

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

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

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

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

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

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

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

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