Quotes by Chris Pine - Page 4

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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Plot
Portraying
Great Always Your
Great Done Always
Center
Great Thing
Jack
Ryan
Shine
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Don't Care
Gang
Handsome
Motivated
Validation
Younger
Anymore
Solely
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Kids
Men
Empathy
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Character
Squares
Thinking
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Dramatic
Movies Myself Always
Right Word
Smaller
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Bunch
Deserve
Invited
Liberating
Long Time
Motivated
Scary
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Suffice
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Christmas
Smile
Morning
Collusion
Fantastic
Growing Up
Santa
Santa Claus
Wrapping
Years
Time Morning Always
Exciting Time
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Fun
Rehearsal
Theatre
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Seventies
Different Kind
Network
Robert
Sixties
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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?"
Chris Pine / Actor
Fall
Lap
Perspective
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Common Language
Growing Up
Lows
Rejection
Shorthand
Speech
Supportive
Highs
Rejections
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Dad
Crazy
Grandmother
Studios
Shot
Forties
Contract
Credits
Thirties
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It's either 'Saw' made for $4 million or 'Star Wars,' 'Star Trek,' 'Guardians of the Galaxy' et cetera being made for $150 million. So the $30 and $40 million films don't get made unless they're maybe 'Ride Along.' But I don't really know why. I don't get paid to know why.
Chris Pine / Actor
Galaxy
Wars
Guardians
Ride
Star Trek
Trek
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Jobs
Sweat
Thinking
Work Out
Work Great Thinking
Anything Else
Great Way
Intensely
Zen
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Boards
Facts
Honestly
Matched
Night
Steps
Life Love Death
Master
Huge Part
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I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it's kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. 'Here we are, struggling.' It's about people persevering and persevering and persevering.
Chris Pine / Actor
Defined
Harsh
Unfriendly
Wilderness
Life Experience Struggle
Explore
Persevering
Struggling
Tame
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Powerful
Religious
Spiritual
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Body Image
Mass
Unfortunate
Great Eyes Look
Certain Way
Mass Audience
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Journey
Hero
Thinking
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I'm definitely of the 'less is more' mentality, and what I really appreciate is that fragrance is chemical, and it changes with your body throughout the day. It's a very deeply personal thing. One smell on one person isn't the same on another, and I appreciate the uniqueness of that experience.
Chris Pine / Actor
Fragrance
Less Is More
Mentality
Smell
Uniqueness
Your Body
Chemical
Personal Thing
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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.
Chris Pine / Actor
Imagination
Powerful
Riding
Scared
Actual
Pretty
Asked
Works
Just Kind
Moment
Powerful Thing
Stunts
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I don't think there's anything less attractive than a man over-dyeing things on his face, so I'm going to try, for as long as I can, to age as my male forefathers before me. My father started getting grays when he was in his 30s, as did my grandfather before him, so I don't want to look perpetually young.
Chris Pine / Actor
Age
Attractive
Forefathers
Grandfather
Young
Face
Male
Less
Getting
Perpetually
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I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they're incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.
Chris Pine / Actor
Dating
Alright
Enjoy
Fascinating
Objectives
Psychology
Talk
Across
Date
Foot
Forward
Incredibly
Sit
Studies
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I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.
Chris Pine / Actor
Auditions
Danger
Father
Hollywood
House
Lost
Notion
Teeth
White
Winning
Years
Pretty
Expect
Business Good Game
Lean
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For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
Chris Pine / Actor
Music
Smile
Beautiful Art
Host
Memories
Particular
Scent
Smell
Whole
Life Art Music
Art Forms
Bring
Forms
Lover
Times
Evocative
Remind
Resonant
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[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing extraordinary things. I love that.
Chris Pine / Actor
Men
Simple
Strong
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Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.
Chris Pine / Actor
Adolescence
Blur
Easy
Fit
Grey
Lost
Sitting
Want
Life Your Lost
Living
Much
Being
Ahead
Get
Questions
Area
Meant
How
Trick
Ok
Rather
Where
Worrying
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For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.
Chris Pine / Actor
Future
Day To Day
Exploring
Fun
Ideas
Lazy
Nice
Seeing
Stuff
Team
Throwing
Wall
Writing
Yeah
Love Me Fun
Against
Love Future Me
Collaborative
Deal
Directing
Fits
Incredibly
Sometime
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We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.
Chris Pine / Actor
Anger
Kids
Dad
Mom
Conscious
Damage
Faults
Issues
Mom And Dad
Family Mom Dad
Naturally
Dysfunctional
Fallible
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Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we're duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is "An eye for an eye." Revenge policy; "If you hit me, we'll hit you back worse"; ad infinitum.
Chris Pine / Actor
Eye
Revenge
Struggle
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Everything is just make believe. They're just different versions of make believe. I love the period of this movie [The Finest Hours]. I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style of the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the lights and the cars. I'm in love with all of it.
Chris Pine / Actor
Believe
Clothes
Light
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I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.
Chris Pine / Actor
Belated
Couple
Crisis
Letting Go
Life Crisis
Mortality
Spontaneous
Thinking
Beauty Life Work
Turning
Embracing
Major
Letting
Prematurely
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I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had bad skin as a teenager and I am a shy person, but I think I am in the perfect business to fight my insecurities. You have to learn to love yourself and say 'I am pretty cool' instead of being so critical. You can easily fall into the trap of doing that.
Chris Pine / Actor
Fall
Love You
Teenager
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In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the gray area; being okay with where you are. If you can find the parity between 'Where am I going?' and 'What's my purpose?' you've got two pretty solid pillars for your coffee table.
Chris Pine / Actor
Coffee
Thinking
Two
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When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling.
Chris Pine / Actor
Jobs
Good Movie
Opposites
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I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.
Chris Pine / Actor
Jobs
New York
Moving
Summer
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