Quote

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

Sean Penn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sean Penn
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 17
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Lgbtqia+ Rights Activist
Political Activist
Politician
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Santa Monica
California
Sean Justin Penn
Pappy Pariah
Malice
Performance
Short
Anything

More quotes by Sean Penn

Image
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
Sean Penn
Image
When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
Sean Penn
Image
Bukowski said, I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly.
Sean Penn
Image
That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
Sean Penn
Image
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
Image
When everything gets answered, it's fake.
Sean Penn
Image
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 same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
Sean Penn
Image
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
Image
If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
Sean Penn
Image
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.
Sean Penn
Image
I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
Sean Penn
Image
I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.
Sean Penn
Image
When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.
Sean Penn
Image
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
Image
Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
Sean Penn
Image
I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.
Sean Penn
Image
Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.
Sean Penn
Image
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry Malick himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.
Sean Penn
Image
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
Sean Penn
Image
You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!
Sean Penn