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Robin Wright Penn
American
Actress
About the author
No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Want
#People
#Work
#Being
#Pretty
#Sex
If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Day
#Sleep
If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Feeling
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Kids
#Fantasy
#Romantic
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Fate
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Love
#Act
#Poetry
#Beauty
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Imagination
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Brother
#Memories
#Mosquitoes
I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Independence
#Sense
#Mother
#Confidence
Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Nothing
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Queen
#Actor
Sean's a great, great writer.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Writer
Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Being
#Movies
#Provocative
Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#People
We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Children
#Act
My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Favorite
Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Business
#Restaurants
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Past
#Money
#Travel
I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Choices
Everyone has the answers.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Answers
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Faith
#Walking
#Confidence
I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Successful
#Hollywood
I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Work
#Example
I have always been a good mimic.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
I have such a little face.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Want
I like movies that make you think.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Movies
I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#End
I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Want
#Film
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Work
#Information
#Questions
#Actor
I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
I just love getting dirty.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Love
I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.
Robin Wright Penn,
American
Actress
#Being
#Idea