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" 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

Performance

Loved

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Fight

Going

" When Trump goes after the media and calls it fake news, he should be impeached - and everyone should say this. But the media lives in fear. "

" My interactions with my family members are all one-to-one. We don't all get together for Thanksgiving dinner. But I can sit and tell any one of them about a conversation that I just had with the other one, and they're all curious and interested and respectful. "

" 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. "

" 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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Home

Drive

" There is nothing as special as watching greatness. "

" As soon as they sent me an email saying that 'Stranger Things' is having an audition and they'd like you to come in, I just thought, 'Oh boy, this might be fated.' I hadn't really watched the show, but I binged it and fell in love with it. "

Sean Astin

Saying

Love

" My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football. "

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Mother

Hurt

" I'm not smart enough to play 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Maybe if someone were to take me by the hand and slowly and carefully walk me through. "

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Walk

Someone

" I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium, and they all have something in common: a quality that is creative, comfortable, and thoughtful. "

" I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune. "

" 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

Three

Missing

" By 14, I had decided on three modest goals and repeated them often to everyone. I wanted to be a world-class filmmaker, CEO of a multi-billion-dollar entertainment company, and president of the United States. I've had to settle for journeyman actor. "

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

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

" Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on. "

" 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. "

" I actually think I've got a pretty good horror scream. "

" I first heard about 'Stranger Things' from people dressed as the characters coming up to me at conventions saying, 'Hey, you have to see this show. It's 'Goonies.' "

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See

Dressed

" 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. "

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Eating

Goal

" 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 don't like scary movies. "

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Movies

Scary Movies

" I want to do more work behind the camera. "

Sean Astin

Work

Behind

" The sidekick business has been good to me. "

" 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

Universe

Taken

" I used to love watching Angela Lansbury and other people when they were doing voice-overs for Disney shows. You'd see them doing these wild gestures in front of the microphone. I used to think, 'Is that really necessary?' What you realize when you're doing it is that that's the only way. "

" I've got a body of work now, I've been doing movies for 32 years, and you never know which movie it is that somebody might reference to you, so you've got to be ready for everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "