Sean Penn

So I kept taking these jobs that I thought were good jobs about good subjects with good directors.

And I was missing my family, whatever that meant.

Literally, my dog.

And I said, what the fuck am I doing here?

And especially when you're playing a leading role or you have a lot of younger actors.

There was a responsibility to take on as a kind of leader on the energy and the focus on the set.

And I'm faking it.

And you're miserable when you're faking it, really miserable, even resentful.

And what do you want that guy around for?

And I just felt like maybe I'm done with all this.

Yeah, no question about it.

You are given automatic cover if you've had, you know, once you represent a certain kind of quality stamp and you get away with too much.

I remember Marlon said to me one time, he would call it, I'd really have to suit up for that one.

And I remember I was doing a play in San Francisco and he was intermittent.

I'm stealing this description.

Jack Nicholson's very good with words.

He says, you know, old Marl, he's intermittently contemptuous.

And backstage in San Francisco at the Magic Theater,

Marlon's call comes through out of the blue.

What are you doing?