186 Quotes by Sean Penn

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

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

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

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.