Chris Pine Quotes
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No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.
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A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
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I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
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I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.
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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.
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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.
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You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
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I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
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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.
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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.
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I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.
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One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.
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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.
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'Me' time is just as important as 'us' time.
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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.
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I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.
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For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.