Quotes by John Astin - Page 1

I think people really want to be happy.
John Astin / Actor
People
Thinking
Want
People Happy Want
Be Happy
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People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin / Actor
Might
People
Smarter
Thinking
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With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?
John Astin / Actor
Gossip
Gossip Girl
Needs
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If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.
John Astin / Actor
Truth
Ifs
Live Your Life
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I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.
John Astin / Actor
Figure Skating
Ghost
Thinking
Basically
Figure
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People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.
John Astin / Actor
Space
Available
People
Wanted
Poe
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Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
John Astin / Actor
Sometimes
Tough
Upside Down
Upside
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I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
John Astin / Actor
Made
Play
Special
Special People
Audiences
Simply
So-Called
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I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.
John Astin / Actor
Answers
Missions
Thinking
Mission
Poe
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Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
John Astin / Actor
Bible
Student
Poe
Referred
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One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
John Astin / Actor
Able
Depth
Life Is
Universe
Demonstrate
Poe
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There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.
John Astin / Actor
Development
Instinct
Intuition
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My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
John Astin / Actor
Dream
Encouragement
Ideas
Insight
People
Hopes
Reach
Revelation
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The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.
John Astin / Actor
Mental Illness
Normal
World
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There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.
John Astin / Actor
Character
Might
Roles
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The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.
John Astin / Actor
Association
Feedback
Heartwarming
Phenomenon
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There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard.
John Astin / Actor
Hurt
Legs
Trapeze
Upside Down
Backs
How Much
Upside
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The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.
John Astin / Actor
Aberration
Becoming
Enemy
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I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
John Astin / Actor
Yoga
Exercise
Work Out
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I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
John Astin / Actor
Yoga
Certain
Meditation
Replaced
Use
Now
Chant
Working
Times
Exercises
Sort
Positions
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The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
John Astin / Actor
Age
Appreciate
English Language
Long
Timeless
Dated
Exists
Poe
Themes
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It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.
John Astin / Actor
Feedback
Giving
People
Thinking
Warm
Me People Important
Poe
Succeeding
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Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
John Astin / Actor
Sometimes
Struggle
Want
Struggle Me Sometimes
Express
Performance
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My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
John Astin / Actor
Dad
Blood
Math
Method
Physicist
Scientific Method
Thinking
Background
Dad Me Important
Basically
Somewhere
Scientific
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There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
John Astin / Actor
Conventional
Development
Enemy
Human Beings
Intuition
Beings
Complex
Poe
Reach
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At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.
John Astin / Actor
Admiration
Appreciated
People
Ravens
Money People Never
Certain Point
Fully
Popular
Oddball
Raven
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United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
John Astin / Actor
Artist
Busy
Ideas
No Idea
Records
Song
Album
Rare
Just Kind
Rare Thing
Slide
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I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.
John Astin / Actor
Difficult Things
Later In Life
Moving
Thinking
Eventually
Move Forward
Piece
Poe
Reasons
Victorious
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One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.
John Astin / Actor
Appreciation
Smile
Easy
Fake
Feedback
Giving
Great Things
People
Sincere
Great People Nothing
Express
Receive
Recognized
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We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
John Astin / Actor
Optimistic
Running
Believe
Better Off
Earth
Greatness
Human Race
Humanity
Primitive
Race
Quite
Sooner
Damaged
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I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.
John Astin / Actor
Flexible
Fun
Legs
Long
Lotuses
Mainstream
Anybody Else
Lotus
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Where is the boundary between your thoughts and feelings and my thoughts and feelings? Where does it end - the outer layer of epidermis? If you look at the body as energy - not matter - maybe there's a possibility we as human beings are more connected to one another than we realize.
John Astin / Actor
Doe
Energy
Feelings
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