Sean Penn

A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up,…

— Sean Penn

The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor.…

— Sean Penn

A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly,…

— Sean Penn

I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world…

— 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

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

— Sean Penn

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as…

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of…

— Sean Penn

I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really…

— Sean Penn

Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want…

— Sean Penn

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable…

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most…

— Sean Penn

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my…

— Sean Penn

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the…

— Sean Penn

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in…

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me…

— Sean Penn

There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice,…

— Sean Penn

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think…

— Sean Penn

I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with…

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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…

— Sean Penn

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because…

— Sean Penn