I'm not a breakfast eater.
— Sean Penn
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
There's not a lot of good movies being made.
My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
I think we all have light and dark inside us.
There is no re-inventing the wheel.
Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
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.
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.
If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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.
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
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.
Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
I really love to make movies.
