Top 73 Quotes by Sean Penn

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

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

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

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

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

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.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.