Sean Penn movie quotes

“- Darlene: I don't care.
- Eddie: What do you mean, you don't care?
- Darlene: It doesn't matter to me anymore.
- Eddie: No, it matters, and you care. What you mean is it doesn't make any difference!”
Robin Wright - Darlene
Sean Penn - Eddie

“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”

Sean Penn - Sean O'Connell

“You heard of Manifest Destiny? That's when you take what you can when you can. The greasers took it from the redskins and we took it from them. And I'm gonna take it all from you, Jack, and not just because I can. But because this is my destiny. Los Angeles is my fucking destiny, you motherfucker.”

Sean Penn - Mickey Cohen

“- Matthew Poncelet: I like rebels. Some blacks is ok. Martin Luther King, he led his people all the way to DC and kicked the white man's butt.
- Sister Helen Prejean: You respect Martin Luther King?
- Matthew Poncelet: He put up a fight. He wasn't lazy.”
Sean Penn - Matthew Poncelet
Susan Sarandon - Sister Helen Prejean

“Trouble befalls us, everyone has their sadness in their heart. Some people are meant to be heard.”
Sean Penn - Jim

“I can't keep going like this. The insemination, the child. It's like we're trying to put a Band-Aid on something that's just been bled dry.”
Sean Penn - Paul Rivers

“You don't know what is like when you try, and you try, and you try, and you try, and you don't ever get there! Because you were born perfect and I was born like this, and you're perfect!”

Sean Penn - Sam Dawson

“- Terry Noonan: So we're like Robin Hood in this instance?
- Jackie Flannery: Yea and I'm Friar Fuck.”
Sean Penn - Terry Noonan
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jackie Flannery

“- Brian Moreland: Don't let friendship keep you here.
- Alex Dwyer: Don't worry.”
Timothy Hutton - Brian Moreland
Sean Penn - Alex Dwyer

“- Mr. Hand: Am I hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you're doing?
- Jeff Spicoli: Learning about Cuba, and having some food.”

Ray Walston - Mr. Hand
Sean Penn - Jeff Spicoli

“Sam Bicke was many things, but not a king. He just wanted to make a change, to stop the lies... and he aimed high.”
Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“Mr. Bernstein, sir there are people who sit and wait their lives away on the promise of the dream that will not come... they are the sheep.”
Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“This is a weapon, this is a gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun.”
Sean Penn - Sgt. Tony Meserve

“Have you ever felt completely alone? Alone in a world of danger, and no one to rely on? Danger on every hand, in a world fraught with danger? And at the brink of death I felt in my pocket, and what did I find? What did I find? What did I find? Nothing. There's nothing there. It's all in your head.”
Sean Penn - Jim

“- Prosecutor: Is it standard for U.S. personnel to have sex with prisoners and kill them?
- Sgt. Tony Meserve: The prisoner tried to give away the squad's position.
- Prosecutor: She was ill and coughing from the abuse of you and your men. She shouldn't have been there to jeopardize your position! You dragged her out and raped her! And then you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Vyto Ruginis - Prosecutor
Sean Penn - Sgt. Tony Meserve

“- Jimmy Markum: How long?
- Whitey Powers: How long what?
- Jimmy Markum: How long till you catch my daughter's killer? I need to know.”
Sean Penn - Jimmy Markum
Laurence Fishburne - Whitey Powers

“The Earth belongs to the bullies who do not care how they get to the top, as long as they arrive.”
Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“- Matthew Poncelet: Mr. Delacroix, I don't wanna leave this world with any hate in my heart. I ask your forgiveness for what I done. It was a terrible thing I done, taking your son away from you.
- Clyde Percy: How about us?
- Matthew Poncelet: Mr. and Mrs. Percy, I hope my death gives you some relief.”
Sean Penn - Matthew Poncelet
R. Lee Ermey - Clyde Percy

“- Grace McKenna: I don't want to go to Mexico, Bobby. I want to stay with you. Don't you think I care about you?
- Bobby Cooper: I think you're a lying, backstabbing, psycho bitch... and one day you'll kill me. But it's nice to know you care.”
Jennifer Lopez - Grace McKenna
Sean Penn - Bobby Cooper

“Slavery never really ended in this country. It just gave it another name... employee.”
Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“I've seen a lot of killing... which it's our duty to do, because it's kill or be killed. Sometimes you hate the enemy so badly.”
Sean Penn - Sgt. Tony Meserve

“Just because you're talking, that doesn't mean destiny is speaking, Artie.”

Sean Penn - Eddie

“I love my wife. She likes to break beer bottles over people's heads. That's what she loves.”
Sean Penn - Eddie Quinn

“You don't wanna get laid, man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you gotta talk to them.”
Sean Penn - Danny McGavin

“There's a cancer... in the system, the whole system has a cancer and I'm being punished because I resist. But somebody has to resist, just somebody has to resist.”

Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke