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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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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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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Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
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I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.
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I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
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Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.
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There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.
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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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I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them.
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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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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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Therapy's like going to the gym.
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I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.
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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.
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My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.
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I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.
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Usually, I like stuff kind of fitted, but I'm getting more and more into this comfort, this melding of comfort and style rather than looking like you've tried to shove yourself into some sort of sausage casing.
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If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.
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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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There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
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I think it's a fair criticism to say that we've gotten our fill of superhero films, and audiences should just have different things to choose from when they go to the theaters.
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My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
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I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.