Sean Penn Quotes

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

I've always been interested in the news, but I've always been interested in what's popular. I've always had a little bit of a populist take on things. Which I know is interesting when you talk about Donald Trump.