Chris Pine Quotes
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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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No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.
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Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.
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I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
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I talk to myself, especially in the car.
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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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Action films unfortunately don't let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don't have much time to create something indelible or unique.
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I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.
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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 was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
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'Me' time is just as important as 'us' time.
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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.
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I've sung in the shower for years.
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Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.