Chris Pine Quotations

I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

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.

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.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

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.

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

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.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

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.

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.

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.

Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

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

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

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

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

I have worked hard to get where I am.

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 like this idea of becoming fully realised.

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.

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

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

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

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 wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends.

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

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

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.

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

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

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

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.

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

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

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.

'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.