Sean Penn Net Worth

Sean Penn's Quotes

• [Discussing Oliver Stone] I think that his basic pig nature keeps him from doing the best of what he ought to do. And it keeps him from being someone I want to run into.
• 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 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.
• I can never get ahead of the game because of the movies I do.
• You build a cage based on your sense of the truth and your sense of the aspects of the character that need to tell the story. If you've done your job right, which I've had varying degrees of success doing at different times in my life, then you're able to function very freely within that cage.

Interesting Facts about Sean Penn

1. He served 32 days in jail in 1987 for hitting an extra.
2. He and Robin Wright lived together off and on for 7 years and had two children before their marriage in 1996.
3. They lost their home in the Malibu fire in November 1993.
4. Appeared with his brother Chris Penn in At Close Range (1986), in which their actress mother, Eileen Ryan, played their grandmother.
5. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
6. Ranked #76 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
7. Son of Leo Penn and Eileen Ryan.
8. Middle brother of musician Michael Penn and Chris Penn.
9. Moved to Marin County (North of San Francisco) to avoid raising his children in Hollywood.
10. Has 2 children: daughter, Dylan Penn (b. April 13, 1991) & son, Hopper Penn (b. August 6, 1993) with ex-wife, Robin Wright.
11. His son is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.
12. Brother-in-law of Aimee Mann.
13. 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.
14. On September 11, 2004, he received the John Steinbeck award at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The award is given out by the San Francisco Chronicle and benefits San Jose State University. The evening included film clips and discussion with Peter Coyote. The biggest surprise of the night was that Bruce Springsteen (a longtime friend of Sean's and the first recipient of the award) presented it to him.
15. His paternal grandparents were Ashkenazi immigrants (their families were from Russia and Lithuania). They ran a deli in New York for some time. His mother's heritage is half Italian and half Irish.
16. In October 2002, he bought a $56,000 ad in the Washington Post to publish an open letter to President George W. Bush asking him to slow down the march of war towards Iraq. He wrote it as a father of two children and as a son of a WW II veteran.
17. His father, Leo Penn, had been blacklisted in the 1950s for his political beliefs.
18. He and his family moved out of Hollywood to Marin County, north of San Francisco because he was "tired of a lot of aspects of Los Angeles, the main one being raising the kids in a company town".
19. His car, a limited-edition 1987 Buick Grand National, was stolen in Berkeley months after his return from Iraq. Among the lost contents were 2 guns.
20. He and director Clint Eastwood discussed the possibility of Sean starring in Blood Work (2002). Though it didn't work out, they got the opportunity to work together later in Mystic River (2003).