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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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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Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.
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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'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.
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What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?
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The customer is not always right.
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I love architecture.
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I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.
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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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The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.
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My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
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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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I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.
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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 performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
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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 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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My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.
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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.