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
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.
directors few spending watching
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
across directors lucky rare stumble
These are the rare directors who come along, and you're lucky if you stumble across one as an actor.
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 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.
roles scripts directors
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
directing-movies directors actors
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
directors actors excitement
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
theatre directors excitement
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
burns cigarette funny
There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.
concerns consider human politics
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.
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.
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.
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.