Chris Pine Quotes

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

Chris Pine

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• The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Country
  • American
  • Together

• A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Free
  • Privilege
  • License

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Friend

• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Life
  • Government
  • Secret

• Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • God

• A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Moments
  • Effort

• It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Wall

• It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Good
  • Long
  • Writing

• Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Fear
  • Insecurity

• Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Time
  • Cousin

• Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.

  

  Charles Best

• What defines a Western? I've probably seen three my whole life.

  

  Chloe Zhao
  • Life

• Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.

  

  Preity Zinta

• The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Alone
  • Garden
  • Forgotten

• The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Believe
  • Liar

• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

  

  John Bunyan
  • High
  • Words
  • Air

• Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

  

  David Hurn
  • Learn
  • Second
  • Offer

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

  

  Chris Pine
  • Liar