A biography for Sean Pennhasn’t been written yet.
“Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.”
“The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.”
“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.”
“Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.”
“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.”
“Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.”
“It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.”
“That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.”
“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.”
“When everything gets answered, it's fake.”
“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 am a limousine liberal.”
“Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.”
“I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.”
“In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.”
“In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.”
“Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.”