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.

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

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

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.

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

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.

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

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

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.

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

It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.

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.

I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.

My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.

The sidekick business has been good to me.

Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.

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.

It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.

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

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

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.

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.