Robin Wright Penn

I’ve always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.

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.

I like movies that make you think.

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

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.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

Sean’s a great, great writer.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn’t do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

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.

It’s just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I would have made a lousy stripper. I’m just not very comfortable exposing myself.

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.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I’m not.

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.

I have always been a good mimic.

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.

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.

If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.

Sean’s movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

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.

I want to be perfect. I don’t want to fail. And you always fail.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don’t know. Depends.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

I’d rather attempt something I’m not sure I can do.

I just love getting dirty.

Unless you’re a star in this town, you’re really nothing.

I have such a little face.

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We’ll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

I like the whole package to be good, It’s a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that… a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

Everyone has the answers.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.