Sean Penn

I am a limousine liberal.

Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.