Latest Sean Penn Quotes from Interviews

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

  Sean Penn

  Malice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

  Sean Penn

  Heart, Choices, Chaos

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

  Sean Penn

  Calm, Invisible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

  Sean Penn

  Guy, Energy, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

  Sean Penn

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.

  Sean Penn

  Exercise, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Thinking, Political, Distraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

  Sean Penn

  Maturity, Rebel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I get a little scared of words like maturity.

  Sean Penn

  Maturity, Scared

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.

  Sean Penn

  Maturity, People, Joy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.

  Sean Penn

  Hurt, Lying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

  Sean Penn

  Fall, Forever, Existence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The first instinct is love.

  Sean Penn

  Instinct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Heart, Kind, Response

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

  Sean Penn

  Pain, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

  Sean Penn

  Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.

  Sean Penn

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  "A Minute With: Sean Penn on 'Gunman,' Haiti and superheroes". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. March 11, 2015.

• I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Thinking, Needs

  "A Minute With: Sean Penn on 'Gunman,' Haiti and superheroes". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. March 11, 2015.

• I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.

  Sean Penn

  Regret, War, Drug

  Source: hotair.com

• A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.

  Sean Penn

  Team, Doors, House

  Source: gawker.com

• And dressed her [Madonna] up like a turkey. After I read that stuff, I thought long and hard about what one would do to dress someone up like a turkey. And I nailed it. I figured you've got to get out the Playtex glove, blow it up and put the glove over the head.

  Sean Penn

  Blow, Turkeys, Long

  Source: gawker.com

• I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.

  Sean Penn

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  "Sean Penn and Google's Green Chief on the Paris Climate Talks". Interview with Eric Roston and Brad Wieners, www.bloomberg.com. November 30, 2015.

• As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.

  Sean Penn

  Organization, Issues, Haiti

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

  Sean Penn

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org