Chris Pine Quotes
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.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?
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The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.
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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.
