Top 45 Chris Evans Quotes

What if I couldn’t handle people’s opinions of me? I know that shouldn’t dictate a person’s degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I’m a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

I’ve managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

I’ve been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

If making movies was easier, there’d be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it’s just a good script, or if it’s just a good producer, that’s not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.

I don’t know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

I like ‘Notting Hill.’ If you can do a movie that’s simple, but do it well, there’s room for that.

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like ‘Ordinary People’ or ‘Terms of Endearment.’ Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn’t always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they’re that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They’re tricky. You gotta let them live.

I weep at everything. I love things so much – I just never want to dilute that.

At the end of the day, you’re handing your performance over. If a director says after a take, ‘You know what, try it just really angry. Just get furious’… you’re like, ‘Well, I don’t know if I want to give you that because I don’t know if I trust what you’re going to do with it.’

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

I always wanted to see why Captain America was on this team of Avengers. He’s got to have a reason – he can’t just be really fast and punch really hard.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can’t handle it all of the time.

The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don’t have the nicest things to say about me.

My family is certainly very vocal. They’re very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone’s very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We’re all very liberal.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They’re not the girls you would assume.

Any time you make a movie where you’re living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it’s tough not to take a little piece home with you.

I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can’t poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That’s about it. The rest I’m really flexible on.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

I weep at everything.

Anyone who’s had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you’re walking out the door, you’re planning the next.

If I do cardio I’ll disappear.

I’m a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I’m pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I’m there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

I’m a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There’s no chance it won’t happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can’t quite tap into what you need.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

I feel like my style’s always been influenced by ‘less is more.’ The coolest styles are kind of simple and classic, like a white T-shirt and jeans. Maybe you have a cool belt and cool shoes, but everything else you keep simple.

I’ve read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn’t pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I’ve also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They’re the storytellers. If you don’t have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

I had eel at a sushi bar once; it’s disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, ‘That looks safe.’ It wasn’t.

But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.

I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you’re like, ‘Chris, how dare you?’ I don’t live in Darfur. I have both legs. But you can’t walk around all the time being like, ‘I’m so grateful I’m not in Darfur.’

I love acting. It’s my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they’re not terribly proud of, but that’s how you learn.

I’m a romantic. I like romantic movies.

I love acting. It’s my playground, it let’s me explore. But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that’s intangible, and while it’s happening, it’s great. But then when it’s done, there’s really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

I was dumped at my senior prom – I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

If you’re walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it’s a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.

Men and women aren’t too dissimilar.