John Astin quote: "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."

One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is ...
JOHN ASTIN

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we w...
JOHN ASTIN

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a litt...
JOHN ASTIN

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feel...
JOHN ASTIN

If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are ...
JOHN ASTIN

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of l...
JOHN ASTIN

I think people really want to be happy.
JOHN ASTIN

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
JOHN ASTIN

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter h...
JOHN ASTIN

I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. Bu...
JOHN ASTIN

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little o...
JOHN ASTIN

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.
JOHN ASTIN

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made t...
JOHN ASTIN

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me ...
JOHN ASTIN

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matt...
JOHN ASTIN

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an...
JOHN ASTIN

There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the ...
JOHN ASTIN

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that mad...
SKYLAR ASTIN

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the her...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart ...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

You never get every job you want.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better,...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a projec...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
MACKENZIE ASTIN

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom...
SKYLAR ASTIN

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and the...
SEAN ASTIN

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convert...
SEAN ASTIN

Skylar is my first name and Astin is my middle name, and my real last name is Lipstein. When I was 1...
SKYLAR ASTIN

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human b...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I'...
SEAN ASTIN

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working,...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and ...
SEAN ASTIN

My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho ...
SEAN ASTIN

There are definitely times where I am listening to the radio, and I think, 'That would be awesom...
SKYLAR ASTIN

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tel...
SEAN ASTIN

I'm definitely lucky to have been included in some of the perks of my brother's connections ...
SKYLAR ASTIN

In football, I lifted weights pretty hard corps and that helped me get strong. Wrestling really cond...
ASTIN VILLARREAL

You have to wrestle smart. You can't just go out and try a new move. You have to do something consta...
ASTIN VILLARREAL

To be successful you have to have a great coach and we've got a great coach. You have to be determin...
ASTIN VILLARREAL

The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really...
SEAN ASTIN

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I w...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
MACKENZIE ASTIN

And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playi...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

You get so inspired by others. Look at Angelina Jolie and all she does. I'm so excited about this pr...
SEAN ASTIN

The Lord of the Rings
SEAN ASTIN

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put ...
SEAN ASTIN

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tel...
SEAN ASTIN

I was really short. I remember going to the doctor to see if there were injections I could take to b...
SEAN ASTIN

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

I'm so over-earnest sometimes. But my parents were pop-culture icons in the Sixties, and my mom has ...
SEAN ASTIN

At our school, he [Jack Black] was the serious thespian dramatist. When I see him rocking out now, I...
SEAN ASTIN

I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever...
SEAN ASTIN

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wantin...
SEAN ASTIN

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

The sidekick business has been good to me.
SEAN ASTIN

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

Be mindful of your thoughts and emotions for they will be the directions of all your purposes.
KATTIE M ASTIN

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON

I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE

I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON

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.

Copied!

John Astin

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

Share:

Related

More John Astin