Sean Astin Quotes

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.

Sean Astin

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • You
  • Saying

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Yourself

• I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Human
  • Animals

• Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • You
  • See
  • Brains

• Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Eyes

• I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Singing

• I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Famous

• My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you, that kinda changed my life.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Life
  • College
  • Friend

• As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Proud
  • Paris
  • Empowering

• I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Hope

• The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

  

  Al McGuire
  • Life
  • Mystery
  • Kamikaze

• Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Death

• 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

  

  Carole King
  • Difficult
  • Stuff
  • Evaluate

• There are things that we still need to do. There's certain things at stake and our guys understand that. Also, we need to keep improving as a football team. That's the mentality that this group has taken on. They understand that they haven't reached their peak.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Team
  • Taken
  • Football

• I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

  

  Michelle Rodriguez
  • Taken
  • Humans
  • Adults

• After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Taken
  • Journey
  • Actors