Sean Astin
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"Sean Patrick Astin" is an American actor, director, voice artist, and producer best known for his film roles as Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings (film series)/The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, and the Daniel Ruettiger/title character of Rudy (film)/Rudy. In television, he appeared as Lynn McGill in 24 (season 5)/season five of 24 (TV series)/24 and currently voices Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)/Raphael in the 2012 Nickelodeon Animation Studio/Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series and Oso in the Disney Junior show Special Agent Oso. Astin also served as the campaign manager for his friend, Democrat Dan Adler, a businessman in the entertainment industry, for California's 36th congressional district special election, 2011.

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

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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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You get so inspired by others. Look at Angelina Jolie and all she does. I'm so excited about this project of hers.

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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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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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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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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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