Sean Astin Quotes
My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.
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Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
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To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.
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In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned 'Scooterman' and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.
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Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.
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The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.
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Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
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I'm definitely going to continue to make films in Scotland, but that doesn't mean it will be exclusively there, and I don't have any particular need to wave a flag.
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Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
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You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
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One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.
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I think each role has had different challenges.
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If you look at how humans tend to want to sleep, it seems to be either, you know, sort of a monophasic way or at least a biphasic way, where there's, perhaps, a long bout during the night and then maybe a siesta-like pattern during the day.
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.
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Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.
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After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.
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When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you've learned in your drills are better than your opponent's. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.
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My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.
