“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.”
― Chris Pine
“Life flies by, and it’s easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it’s ‘How do I fit in?’ In your 20s, it’s ‘What do I want to do?’ In your 30s, ‘Is this what I’m meant to do?’ I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what’s ahead but rather sitting in the grey area – being OK with where you are.”
― Chris Pine
“I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.”
― Chris Pine
“There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.”
― Chris Pine
“Therapy’s like going to the gym.”
― Chris Pine
“The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.”
― Chris Pine
“Mediocrity scares me. It’s the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m enjoying the aging process and the gray hair and the wrinkles.”
― Chris Pine
“I feel prematurely old. I’m actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I’m turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I’ve been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I’m going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I’m going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.”
― Chris Pine
“I like a deep sports massage – a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I’m getting in shape for a role.”
― Chris Pine
“Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you’re in the moment and you’re riding a train and you’re asked to look scared, I don’t know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you’re actually doing some of the stunts, then it’s not so hard at all, because there’s an actual fear there.”
― Chris Pine
“From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there’s a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.”
― Chris Pine
“For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you’d stay up until three in the morning. You’d hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.”
― Chris Pine
“Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.”
― Chris Pine
“I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it’s pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.”
― Chris Pine
“For me, fragrances are very – one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It’s what you want to smell like, it’s memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you’re a lover of scent, it’s a very kind of particular and evocative thing.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m definitely of the ‘less is more’ mentality, and what I really appreciate is that fragrance is chemical, and it changes with your body throughout the day. It’s a very deeply personal thing. One smell on one person isn’t the same on another, and I appreciate the uniqueness of that experience.”
― Chris Pine
“I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.”
― Chris Pine
“Fear runs our lives. It doesn’t matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.”
― Chris Pine
“Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.”
― Chris Pine
“The mass audience doesn’t want to see you if you aren’t perfect. If you don’t look a certain way, if you don’t have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it’s unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.”
― Chris Pine
“The mythic journey is always about selflessness.”
― Chris Pine
“My go-to line when it’s the resume game is that I’m either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.”
― Chris Pine
“I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.”
― Chris Pine
“I think the most dangerous word in the English language is ‘should.’ ‘I should have done this.’ Or ‘I should do that.’ ‘Should’ implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.”
― Chris Pine
“I don’t usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: ‘The Power of Intention,’ which I loved.”
― Chris Pine
“What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?”
― Chris Pine
“In high school, I once sang ‘Let’s Get It On’ and ‘Brown Sugar’ with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.”
― Chris Pine
“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”
― Chris Pine
“I don’t think there’s anything better than talk therapy.”
― Chris Pine
“Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you’re the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and… you deserve it.”
― Chris Pine
“As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, ‘Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?’”
― Chris Pine
“One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who’s good at crossword puzzles.”
― Chris Pine
“Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie ‘Arachnophobia,’ which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.”
― Chris Pine
“I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was ‘The Avengers.’ The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.”
― Chris Pine
“Anytime you take on a character… you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.”
― Chris Pine
“L.A.’s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it’s still sunny. And they’re still serving Mai Tais.”
― Chris Pine
“Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.”
― Chris Pine
“A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there’s always something else; there’s always hope.”
― Chris Pine
“I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.”
― Chris Pine
“For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing… yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.”
― Chris Pine
“I don’t think there’s anything less attractive than a man over-dyeing things on his face, so I’m going to try, for as long as I can, to age as my male forefathers before me. My father started getting grays when he was in his 30s, as did my grandfather before him, so I don’t want to look perpetually young.”
― Chris Pine
“I work out because that’s my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you’re thinking of anything else, you’re not working intensely enough.”
― Chris Pine
“I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you’ve done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.”
― Chris Pine
“If you had no real training, if you hadn’t spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?”
― Chris Pine
“You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.”
― Chris Pine
“Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It’s not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.”
― Chris Pine
“Growing up in a family of actors, what’s great about it is that they’re very supportive and they understand what it’s like to be an actor – the rejections, the highs and lows… and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.”
― Chris Pine
“I talk to myself, especially in the car.”
― Chris Pine
“I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.”
― Chris Pine
“Generally speaking, the more money that’s involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it’s not going to fail.”
― Chris Pine
“Women think that men don’t talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it’s succinct – 10 minutes, then we move on.”
― Chris Pine
“I don’t know any kid that’s not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That’s why they make nightlights.”
― Chris Pine
“After many years of self-flagellation, I’ve realised that beating myself up doesn’t get me anywhere.”
― Chris Pine
“I think it’s a very healthy thing to learn from what’s happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, ‘How could I have dealt with that differently?’ Then let it go.”
― Chris Pine
“I do like dating cynics – they tend to be incredibly funny.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m more cerebral than I want to be.”
― Chris Pine
“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it’s one thing. I don’t have a lot of time to think about dating.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don’t need to worry about that – that’s always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.”
― Chris Pine
“I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don’t like serving; I don’t like getting people ketchup.”
― Chris Pine
“’Star Trek’ scared me a lot more than ‘White Jazz.’ It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.”
― Chris Pine
“When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of ‘must happen, must happen.’”
― Chris Pine
“When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I’m better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves – the misfits.”
― Chris Pine
“The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.”
― Chris Pine
“We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it’s conscious or not. Everyone’s got their own ‘stuff,’ their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.”
― Chris Pine
“Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.”
― Chris Pine
“It’s really interesting that, in ‘The Avengers,’ the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he’s fragile and human and faulty.”
― Chris Pine
“My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.”
― Chris Pine
“I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.”
― Chris Pine
“I would love to do more theatre, musicals… everything.”
― Chris Pine
“I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn’t expect anything from the business, and that’s often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you’re pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you’ll win.”
― Chris Pine
“’Star Trek’ is about a bunch of disparate people and what they’re capable of when they work together.”
― Chris Pine
“My fans have designated themselves the, uh, ‘Pine Nuts.’ They’re a nutty bunch.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.”
― Chris Pine
“If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can’t have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.”
― Chris Pine
“Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.”
― Chris Pine
“Uh, I do not wear a wig in ‘Star Trek’ like I did in ‘Bottle Shock,’ thank God. ‘Bottle Shock’ will be the last wig movie I ever do.”
― Chris Pine
“I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.”
― Chris Pine
“I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they’re incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.”
― Chris Pine
“Everybody’s got family, or they don’t have family, but they come from somewhere.”
― Chris Pine
“No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.”
― Chris Pine
“I love the spy genre.”
― Chris Pine
“I like this idea of becoming fully realised.”
― Chris Pine
“You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that’s not as exciting as it looks.”
― Chris Pine
“You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.”
― Chris Pine
“I cry all the time – at work, at the shrink’s, with my lady. ‘The Notebook’ killed me. ‘Up’ destroyed me.”
― Chris Pine
“Those big films are scary things. There’s so much money behind those things. There’s that hype. You enter a machine.”
― Chris Pine
“Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it’s fluffy comedy or a drama.”
― Chris Pine
“On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.”
― Chris Pine
“I really don’t get recognized much.”
― Chris Pine
“There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I’m in a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit.”
― Chris Pine
“My name is not ‘William Shatner.’”
― Chris Pine
“Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.”
― Chris Pine
“I usually just end up at home on my couch – reading.”
― Chris Pine
“You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.”
― Chris Pine
“I’ve worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.”
― Chris Pine
“I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m an actor, but I am an awful liar.”
― Chris Pine
“More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn’t do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.”
― Chris Pine
“Lying does exist in crazy forms.”
― Chris Pine
“The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the ‘Gilmore Girls,’ and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.”
― Chris Pine
“I wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends.”
― Chris Pine
“I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.”
― Chris Pine
“’Horrible Bosses’ is just blatant, outright fun. I’ve read some of what the critics have said, and it’s incredible how mean critics can be about comedies… It’s so ridiculous.”
― Chris Pine
“At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don’t do your job, you’re going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.”
― Chris Pine
“I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I’d do, I don’t know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m very familiar with Tyler Perry.”
― Chris Pine
“I’ve sung in the shower for years.”
― Chris Pine
“My father calls acting ‘a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.’”
― Chris Pine
“With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.”
― Chris Pine
“I like to listen to French radio; I’m trying to learn French.”
― Chris Pine
“The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we’re losing.”
― Chris Pine
“I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them.”
― Chris Pine
“I have such awful skin; it doesn’t matter what magic serum they think they’re putting on – I’ll usually break out.”
― Chris Pine
“I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about – get a bit closer. I don’t want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone’s smell.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m not really sure what gay propaganda is.”
― Chris Pine
“The customer is not always right.”
― Chris Pine
“I’ve seen what can happen to an actor when he’s just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it’s ten years later, your career’s happened, and you haven’t had any control.”
― Chris Pine
“I still assume that, any day, I’m going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.”
― Chris Pine
“There’s certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.”
― Chris Pine
“Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would ‘Network’ ever be made now? No. Would ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ ever be made now? No. Would ‘Tootsie’ ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never.”
― Chris Pine
“What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?”
― Chris Pine
“When I’m kissing someone, I don’t want to feel as though I’m rubbing off all the makeup that’s on their face or messing things around. I think natural is better.”
― Chris Pine
“’Me’ time is just as important as ‘us’ time.”
― Chris Pine
“It’s so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That’s what I look for in any role.”
― Chris Pine
“Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that’s not of any import other than, ‘Is it a good story? Does it say something that’s interesting?’”
― Chris Pine
“I’m sensitive, and I don’t ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.”
― Chris Pine
“Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.”
― Chris Pine
“I have worked hard to get where I am.”
― Chris Pine
“I love architecture.”
― Chris Pine
“For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.”
― Chris Pine
“What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers? Or, ‘I have 140,000 friends on Facebook.’ What does that even mean? I find it to be a waste of time.”
― Chris Pine
“I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn’t want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.”
― Chris Pine
“Action films unfortunately don’t let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don’t have much time to create something indelible or unique.”
― Chris Pine
“My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn’t like a big romantic adventure.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That’s a wonderful place to be.”
― Chris Pine
“I like kind of natural, woodsy earth tones. I like patchouli. I like tobacco. I like sandalwood. I like tree resin. I’m not a huge fan of citrus – I like things that are kind of moodier and… more deeper base notes.”
― Chris Pine
“Usually, I like stuff kind of fitted, but I’m getting more and more into this comfort, this melding of comfort and style rather than looking like you’ve tried to shove yourself into some sort of sausage casing.”
― Chris Pine
“I think it’s a fair criticism to say that we’ve gotten our fill of superhero films, and audiences should just have different things to choose from when they go to the theaters.”
― Chris Pine
“It’s either ‘Saw’ made for $4 million or ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ et cetera being made for $150 million. So the $30 and $40 million films don’t get made unless they’re maybe ‘Ride Along.’ But I don’t really know why. I don’t get paid to know why.”
― Chris Pine
“I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that’s just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.”
― Chris Pine
“There’s some beautiful filmmaking on television. I’m getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what’s happening there.”
― Chris Pine
“I don’t have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.”
― Chris Pine
“When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don’t care as much about those things anymore.”
― Chris Pine
“The things that motivated me at 21 don’t suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It’s taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don’t know, that I actually deserve to be here.”
― Chris Pine
“I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it’s kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. ‘Here we are, struggling.’ It’s about people persevering and persevering and persevering.”
― Chris Pine
“I think we just live in a time of the selfie. So there’s a sense that everyone’s uniqueness and importance on this planet should be displayed and reveled in, and that there’s kind of a piece of glory for everyone.”
― Chris Pine
“I love the ’40s. I love the ’50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I’m just in love with the cars. I’m in love with all of it.”
― Chris Pine
“There’s something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something – like, ‘This is it, this is what I got.’”
― Chris Pine
“I clearly haven’t made a good enough impression on people. My go-to line when it’s the resume game is that I’m either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.”
― Chris Pine
“I’m not saying that the action/science-fiction genre is bad in itself. I make those films. I’m just saying that the studios have put all their cards on black.”
― Chris Pine
“If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.”
― Chris Pine
“I try to live joyfully and the by the rule of treating others how you’d want to be treated – that’s a good one to stick by.”
― Chris Pine
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