41 Quotes by John Astin

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.

I think people really want to be happy.

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.

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

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

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.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That’s what an actor wants to do.

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however “normal” his facade, is faking sanity.

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.