Sean Penn
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic Riverand the biopic Milk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 August 1960
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
life loved saying shame
There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.
drunk family feeling partly reason
Family makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive... I'm feeling my life, which I didn't always do partly because I'd be drunk a lot.
hands human
It's human to want to get your hands in it.
tough
It's a tough story, but I think it has a lot more than grimness to offer...it's what we are experiencing in our lifetime.
contribute factors function people piece role type varies
It varies from role to role and the type of the piece and the people you're working with. All those factors contribute to how you function on a movie.
burns cigarette funny
There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.
direct miss versus
A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.
direct five movies
I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.
hal impression lasting movies terms
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.
people strength
There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
destroying knowing love people stories
I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.
direct five four gonna instead pictures three time win
If I win the lottery, I'm gonna direct three to four pictures every four to five years, instead of one - and there won't be time to act.
disgusting
If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers.
bad burn except family house interest life sort
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.