Chris Pine Quotes & Sayings

Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine. — 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

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

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 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

The mythic journey is always about selflessness. — Chris Pine

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

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

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 customer is not always right. — Chris Pine

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

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

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

I talk to myself, especially in the car. — 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

There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up. — Chris Pine

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope. — Chris Pine

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another. — 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

I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading. — 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 like this idea of becoming fully realised. — Chris Pine

It opens Wednesday or Friday. — 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

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

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

It's so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That's what I look for in any role. — Chris Pine

I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor. — Chris Pine

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

I had a nose tickle. — Chris Pine

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job. — Chris Pine

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French. — Chris Pine

I don't think there's anything better than talk therapy. — Chris Pine

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

I've sung in the shower for years. — 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

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. — Chris Pine

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner. — Chris Pine

I'm more cerebral than I want to be. — Chris Pine

I love architecture. — Chris Pine

I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store. — Chris Pine

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar. — 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 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

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame. — 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

It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?" — 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

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

Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down. — Chris Pine

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

When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling. — 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

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy. — 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

Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete. — 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

There's certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive. — Chris Pine

Everything is just make believe. They're just different versions of make believe. I love the period of this movie [The Finest Hours ]. I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style of the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the lights and the cars. I'm in love with all of it. — Chris Pine

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

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker. — 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 performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally. — 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

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

What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want? — 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

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

Lying does exist in crazy forms. — Chris Pine

'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together. — 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

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

I definitely have a spiritual outlook. 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. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful. — 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

'Me' time is just as important as 'us' time. — 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 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

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing. — Chris Pine

I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie. — 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

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

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers? — 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

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

In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' 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 gray area; being okay with where you are. If you can find the parity between 'Where am I going?' and 'What's my purpose?' you've got two pretty solid pillars for your coffee table. — 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

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.' — Chris Pine

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. — Chris Pine

I really don't get recognized much. — 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

My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch. — 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

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

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 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

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