Sean Penn goes Smiley

 

Your greatest strength is to know your limitations, and then, of course, undersell them. 

Oscar nominee Sean Penn shared these words of wisdom on a stop last night at "The Tavis Smiley Show," one of the few interviews he's done during this awards season. The deliberately paced PBS program, with its James Lipton-ish fawning, felt comfortable enough to the press-averse Penn that he admitted there were movies where he "didn't rise to the occasion."

He didn't specify which ones, though.

For the whole 22-minute appearance -- with Zen observations like, "Your limitations are your nature, and it's always a terrible mistake for anybody to deny their nature," as well as why he was pulled to play slain gay activist Harvey Milk --  go here.