Chris Pine Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
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My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
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I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.
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The customer is not always right.
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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.
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When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.
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I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.
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I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.
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I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.
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I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
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Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.
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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?
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Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.
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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.
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I love architecture.
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I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.
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There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'
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Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I don't know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you're actually doing some of the stunts, then it's not so hard at all, because there's an actual fear there.
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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.
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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.
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The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.
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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.