Sean Astin famous quotes

04-12-2025

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you realize you can open it up a bit more. You know you're at one with yourself and the environment. You're a little more alive than before you started.
-- Sean Astin

#Running #Distance #Perfect
My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.
-- Sean Astin

#Careers #Actors #Easy
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

#Book #Missing #Three
It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.
-- Sean Astin

#Sweet #Fun #Simple
It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.
-- Sean Astin

#Moments
It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.
-- Sean Astin

#Kids #Parent #Credit
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

#Sports #Thinking #Play
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

#Feelings #Kind #Nervous
Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.
-- Sean Astin

#Running #Good Day #Shoes
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.
-- Sean Astin

#Reading #Thinking #Giving
My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.
-- Sean Astin

#Moderation #Terrible
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.
-- Sean Astin

#Running #Home #Idaho
There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
-- Sean Astin

#Greatness #Special
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.
-- Sean Astin

#Running #Determination #Discipline
A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.
-- Sean Astin

#Running #Distance #Perfect
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

#Goal #Training #Four
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.
-- Sean Astin

#Basketball #Son #Want
To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.
-- Sean Astin

#Journey #Two #People
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
-- Sean Astin

#Taken #Pounds #Moments
I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life
-- Sean Astin

#Play #Guy #Want
The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook
-- Sean Astin

#Phones #Hook #Pining
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 #Wings
I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
-- Sean Astin

#Thinking #Information #Granted
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.
-- Sean Astin

#Bmw #Car #Machines

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