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Vote: | At our school, he [Jack Black] was the serious thespian dramatist. When I see him rocking out now, I find it shocking. |
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Vote: | I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I was really short. I remember going to the doctor to see if there were injections I could take to be taller. But whenever we ran a lap, I wanted to run the fastest. I don't know why, on the wheel of fortune of personality traits, it stopped on ambition and hustle and drive. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I'm so over-earnest sometimes. But my parents were pop-culture icons in the Sixties, and my mom has this Oscar, and I was trying to figure out, how am I going to leave my mark? |
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Vote: | The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971) is a film actor, director, and producer. He is the son of actors Patty Duke and John Astin (although his biological father is Michael Tell). At the time of his birth, it was widely assumed that his biological father was Desi Arnaz, Jr.
Biography Astin has gained much of his acting fame from several major roles. At age 13, he debuted on the silver screen as Mikey in The Goonies (1985). He had a small role in 1989's The War of the Roses and in 1993 got the memorable part as the title character in Rudy. Astin most recently played Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's the Lord of the Rings movies.
In 1994, he directed and co-produced (with his wife, Christine) the Academy Award nominated short film Kangaroo Court.
While working on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (movie)|The Two Towers he persuaded a number of fellow cast and crew members, including director Peter Jackson, to act in or work as crew on his short film, The Long and Short of It (2003), which takes place on a street in Wellington, New Zealand. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, 2003, and appears on the "standard edition" DVD of The Two Towers as an extra feature together with a "making of" video.
His book There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale (2004, ISBN 0312331460), co-written by Joe Layden, is an account of his experiences before, during and after filming the Lord of the Rings movies. The title is of course derived from the subtitle of The Hobbit by Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien.
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