Top 100 Chris Pine Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.
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#3. In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
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#4. I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.
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#5. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.
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#6. Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
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#7. I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different.
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#9. 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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#10. I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.
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#11. Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.
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#12. There's certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.
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#13. 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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#14. I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.
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#15. It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"
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#16. I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.
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#17. I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role.
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#18. I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.
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#19. A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
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#20. 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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#21. Anytime you take on a character ... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
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#22. 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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#23. Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.
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#24. The mythic journey is always about selflessness.
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#25. 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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#26. You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.
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#28. Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.
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#29. I've sung in the shower for years.
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#30. I really don't get recognized much.
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#31. More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.
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#32. What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?
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#33. I talk to myself, especially in the car.
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#34. You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.
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#35. 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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#36. 'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.
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#40. From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.
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#42. I wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends.
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#44. The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
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#45. Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.
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#46. No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.
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#47. Uh, I do not wear a wig in 'Star Trek' like I did in 'Bottle Shock,' thank God. 'Bottle Shock' will be the last wig movie I ever do.
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#48. I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
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#49. 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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#50. I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.
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#54. 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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#55. As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.
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#56. It's so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That's what I look for in any role.
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#57. 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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#58. I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
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#59. Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.
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#60. My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
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#61. I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.
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#62. 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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#63. I'm very familiar with Tyler Perry.
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#64. Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.
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#65. Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.
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#66. 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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#67. I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
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#68. 'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies ... It's so ridiculous.
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#69. I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
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#70. Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.
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#71. 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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#72. I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.
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#73. 'Me' time is just as important as 'us' time.
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#74. I don't think there's anything better than talk therapy.
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#75. What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?
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#76. Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would 'Network' ever be made now? No. Would 'Kramer vs. Kramer' ever be made now? No. Would 'Tootsie' ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never.
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#77. I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who didn't fit in and wasn't handsome. So, I understand implicitly, and with a great amount of empathy, a man or human being that feels that way.
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#78. I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.
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#79. 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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#80. I'm more cerebral than I want to be.
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#81. Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.
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#83. I have worked hard to get where I am.
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#84. Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.
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#85. I definitely have a spiritual outlook. 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. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.
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#86. I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.
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#87. I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.
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#88. With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.
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#89. One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.
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#90. When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'
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#91. Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
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#92. We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.
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#93. When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves - the misfits.
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#94. My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.
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#95. L.A.'s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it's still sunny. And they're still serving Mai Tais.
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#96. 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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#97. I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.
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#98. When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.
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#99. There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
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#100. I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.
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