Sean Penn

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

— Sean Penn

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

— Sean Penn

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

— Sean Penn

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

— Sean Penn

I am a limousine liberal.

— Sean Penn

“Beauty doesn't ask for attention”

— Sean Penn

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."

— Sean Penn

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try…

— Sean Penn

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart…

— Sean Penn

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did,…

— Sean Penn

When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What…

— Sean Penn

I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced…

— Sean Penn

As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even…

— Sean Penn

Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all…

— Sean Penn

I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever.…

— Sean Penn

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption…

— Sean Penn

Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When…

— Sean Penn

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's…

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn