Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 "I became an actor because of Robert De Niro". Hollywood is much more creatively corrupt than it is economically [corrupt]. It takes $1 for them to kill their dreams. Their dreams are worth more than $1.
I can never get ahead of the game because of the movies I do.
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.
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn`t have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.
«There`s the death penalty as society deals with it and legislates it, and I`m against it.»
Politics
Trivia
Good friends with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.
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He toured Caracas, Venezuela with President Hugo Chávez. [August 2007]
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Is an avid surfer.
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Refuses to talk about his ex-wife Madonna in interviews. On her 1989 "Like A Prayer" album, she wrote a song about their failed marriage called "Till Death Do Us Part".
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Robin Wright Penn filed papers for divorce from Sean Penn after 11 years of marriage on December 21, 2007, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple is seeking joint custody of their two teenage children. In April 2008 they withdrew the petition.
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Was in the same acting class as Michelle Pfeiffer at the end of the 70s or early 80s.
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Appeared with his brother Chris Penn in At Close Range (1986), in which their actress mother, Eileen Ryan, played their grandmother.
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Credits Malcolm McDowell as the best actor with whom he`s worked.
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He and Robin Wright Penn lived together from 1991 until their marriage in 1996. They had two children before their marriage.
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He served 32 days in jail in 1987 for hitting an extra.
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His father was of mostly Russian and Lithuanian descent, but paternal grandfather, whose original surname was Piñon, was of Sephardic Jewish heritage. His mother was of Irish and Italian heritage. His paternal grandparents ran a Jewish deli for some time in New York.
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His father, Leo Penn, had been blacklisted in the 50s Hollywood.
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His performance as "Jeff Spicoli" in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) is ranked #9 on Premiere Magazine`s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
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His son is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.
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Quit smoking for a while on his 40th birthday for health reasons. Prior to that, he was known as one of Hollywood`s heaviest smokers, smoking at least four packs of cigarettes a day.
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Ranked #76 in Empire (UK) magazine`s "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
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