Top 73 Quotes by Sean Penn

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

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.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

I think we all have light and dark inside us.