Sean Penn Quotes

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

I have seen ups and downs. I am 10 films old. People say I have changed. But, I don't sense any change in myself. If I had to change, I would have changed in my second or third film.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

When I was a little girl, I got 'Time' magazine every week, and I wanted my face on the cover, but I've changed a lot since then.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.

I used to be someone.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.