Top 80 Chris Pine Quotes

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.

Generally speaking, the more money that’s involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it’s not going to fail.

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.

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.

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.

I’m very familiar with Tyler Perry.

I love architecture.

‘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.

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.

I’m sensitive, and I don’t ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

After many years of self-flagellation, I’ve realised that beating myself up doesn’t get me anywhere.

I’ve worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.

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.

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.

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.

I’m not really sure what gay propaganda is.

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.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of ‘must happen, must happen.’

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.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness.

I really don’t get recognized much.

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.

I would love to do more theatre, musicals… everything.

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.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

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.

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.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.

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.

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have worked hard to get where I am.

There’s certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.

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.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there’s always something else; there’s always hope.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Everybody’s got family, or they don’t have family, but they come from somewhere.

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.

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.

I don’t think there’s anything better than talk therapy.

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.

My father calls acting ‘a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.’

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.

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.

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.

I don’t have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.

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.

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there’s a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.

You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.

Anytime you take on a character… you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I’m in a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

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.

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.

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.

‘Me’ time is just as important as ‘us’ time.

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.