Sean Astin Quotes

• I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That’s what everybody thinks about.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in People, Reading

• The filmmakers who I’m pining to work for aren’t ringing my phone off the hook.

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  Topics in Work

• I don’t want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play

• I’d never heard of the ‘Lord of the Rings’, actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, ‘Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?’

  Sean Astin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Missing, Actually

• I was about 14, and my friend’s stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son – who was more into basketball – didn’t want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

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  Tags in About, Asked

• I’m much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated.

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  Tags in Feeling

• I’m like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I’ve taken all of that off.

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  Tags in Universe, Contract

• The sidekick business has been good to me.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Good

• My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Patient, Wife

• I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It’s really just a lack of focus and discipline.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind

• There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Combination

• My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don’t know moderation.

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  Tags in Moderation

• I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can’t think of any I don’t love. I’ve even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don’t know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

  Sean Astin

  Topics in Love, Sports

  Tags in Play

• A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I’m doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.

  Sean Astin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marathon, Finish

• I think I’ve begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

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  Tags in Easily, Granted

• A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It’s when your stride feels comfortable.

  Sean Astin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Distance

• There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

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  Tags in Greatest

• A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn’t get hit by a bus.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jumped

• I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

  Sean Astin

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  Tags in Definitely

• The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.

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Sean Astin (21)

Birth:	25th February, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Voice Artist

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