Top 80 Sean Penn Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you’re willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you’re already ahead of the game.”

— Sean Penn

52. “I’ve never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.”

— Sean Penn

53. “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.”

— Sean Penn

54. “Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.”

— Sean Penn

55. “I don’t have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.”

— Sean Penn

56. “One man’s act of absurdity may be another’s substitute for solace.”

— Sean Penn

57. “911... Acil durum nedir?”

— Sean Penn

58. “Bob had found fundamentally foreknowledged form in the way Annie giggled.”

— Sean Penn

59. “I regret my El Chapo interview didn’t spark debate about the war on drugs.”

— Sean Penn

60. “I’m not good at talking to strangers, whether they’re sick children or they’re – I’m just not good. I’m shy with it.”

— Sean Penn

61. “That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?”

— Sean Penn

62. “A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.”

— Sean Penn

63. “I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.”

— Sean Penn

64. “It’s only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.”

— Sean Penn

65. “I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.”

— Sean Penn

66. “I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn’t have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.”

— Sean Penn

67. “I think life’s an irrational obsession.”

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

69. “I don’t think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one’s soul and of the culture that they’re supposed to be feeding vitamins to...”

— Sean Penn

70. “I think we all have light and dark inside us.”

— Sean Penn

71. “You’re always having to live more to fuel something new. It’s an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.”

— Sean Penn

72. “Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.”

— Sean Penn

73. “One of the things you don’t have in Haiti is you don’t have anybody on crack doing something completely out of – that’s unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.”

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

75. “Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.”

— Sean Penn

76. “My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.”

— Sean Penn

77. “There is no re-inventing the wheel.”

— Sean Penn

78. “Oh, I’m a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.”

— Sean Penn

79. “As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.”

— Sean Penn

80. “Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father.”

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

82. “Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one’s life and craft.”

— Sean Penn

83. “When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.”

— Sean Penn

84. “The thing that’s very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing’s very different.”

— Sean Penn

85. “There’s not a lot of good movies being made.”

— Sean Penn

86. “Well, I’m pretty anti legends – I just don’t think they’re useful. So that certainly wouldn’t be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.”

— Sean Penn

87. “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.”

— Sean Penn