Sean Penn Quotes

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

At the end of the day, you're saying lines and playing pretend. All that varies from show to show is the level of the intensity and the terms of the expectations you place on yourself.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Acting takes so much energy.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

Acting is very immediate.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.