Sean Penn
18 quotes
Biography
"I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one."
"When everything gets answered, it's fake."
"You tolerate me. You really tolerate me."
"Thank you. If there's one thing that actors know, other than that there weren't any WMDs, it's that there is no such thing as best in acting. And That's proven by these great actors that I was nominated with as well as the — as well as the Giamattis, Cages, Downey Jrs., Nicholsons, etc. that were not nominated. We know how great all of you were. My daughter Dylan and son Hopper find it presumptuous and embarrassing to write a speech, and so I'm gonna give it a go without. God, I really thank Clint Eastwood professionally and humanly for coming into my life. The great, great cast that I had to work with, my friends. Where do you go? Dennis Lehane, Brian Helgeland, Ma. Dad. Robin, for being an undying emotional inspiration on this rollercoaster I'm learning to enjoy. Thank you all very much."
"You and your smarmy pundits — and the smarmy pundits you have in your pocket — can take your war and shove it. Let's unite not only in stopping this war, but in holding this administration accountable. Let's make this crystal clear: We do support our troops, but not the exploitation of them and their families. The money that's spent on this war would be better spent on building levees in New Orleans and health care in Africa and care for our veterans. Iraq is not our toilet. It's a country of human beings whose lives that were once oppressed by Saddam are now in Dante's Inferno."
"When you have a precedent set like that, and you have somebody, George Tenet, acknowledging in his book that he knew that the administration was deceiving the American people into a situation that is murdering young men and women from this country and others, that George Tenet and Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice and George Bush, et al., should be in fucking jail."
"Thank you, you Commie, homo-loving sons of guns."
"Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it. And this is mainstream media. There should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."
"Who gave this son of a bitch his green card? Birdman!"
"Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father."
"Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time."
"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."
"That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too."
"So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in."
"We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage."
"Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it."
"There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort."
"I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies."