Top 100 Chris Pine Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.
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#13. 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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#14. My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
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#15. I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
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#16. 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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#18. No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.
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#19. Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.
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#20. Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
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#21. The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
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#23. I wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends.
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#25. There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.
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#26. I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.
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#27. I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.
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#28. I don't think there's anything better than talk therapy.
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#29. 'Me' time is just as important as 'us' time.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. '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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#38. With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day's over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that's it.
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#39. On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.
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#40. I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
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#41. 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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#42. I would love to do more theatre, musicals ... everything.
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#43. I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.
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#44. 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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#46. Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.
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#47. For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
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#48. I'm very familiar with Tyler Perry.
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#49. 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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#50. I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.
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#51. Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.
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#52. For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.
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#53. Anytime you take on a character ... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
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#54. 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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#55. A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.
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#59. 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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#60. I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.
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#61. 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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#62. There's certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.
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#63. I like this idea of becoming fully realised.
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#64. 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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#65. I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.
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#66. 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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#68. 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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#69. Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
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#70. Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'
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#71. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
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#83. 'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.
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#84. 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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#85. You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.
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#86. I talk to myself, especially in the car.
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#87. As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'
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#88. What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?
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#89. 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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#90. I really don't get recognized much.
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#91. 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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#92. I've sung in the shower for years.
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#93. 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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#95. It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. The mythic journey is always about selflessness.
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#99. 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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#100. My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.
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