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" 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. "

Sean Astin

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Work

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Think

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Walk

Someone

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Movies

Scary Movies

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

" 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. "

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Saying

Love

" 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. "

" I feel like I'm close to all the 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Goonies' people, but I'm kind of sequestered with my wife and kids. But as soon as there's some reason for all of us to be together, it's like no time has passed, lots of hugs. "

" 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. "

" If you're not the guy who is going to puff your chest out like a rooster and go fight somebody, our society discards you. "

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Fight

Going

" 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 absolutely do not think that I have even a vague recollection of what normal life is like. "

" You can't play a hobbit if you're not prepared to be a part of nerd culture. "

" 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

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" 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. "

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

" 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

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

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

Sean Astin

Work

Behind

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