Sean Penn Quotes

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

No one will die if they don't know how old I am.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

I don't want people to know who I am.

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.

You should never reveal your true age.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.