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. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

Working together always works together better… it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of ‘must happen, must happen.’ — Chris Pine

Anybody who’s gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone. — Chris Pine

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don’t like serving; I don’t like getting people ketchup. — Chris Pine

I have worked hard to get where I am. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that’s not as exciting as it looks. — Chris Pine

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn’t imagine having to deal with some kind of fame. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I’m in a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit. — Chris Pine

Life is a beautiful thing. But you’re always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it’s striving to be noticed and appreciated. — Chris Pine

Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie ‘Arachnophobia’ which was single–handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life. — Chris Pine

I’m always surprised reading my old journals. There’s this idea that life is hard now, but then I’ll reach that moment where it’ll change. But there’s no summit. It’s a constant climb. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

Therapy’s like going to the gym. — Chris Pine

I’m certainly not the lead of the film ‘Wonder Woman’ and I don’t have a problem with that. — Chris Pine

I love the spy genre. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine

The customer is not always right. — Chris Pine

Those big films are scary things. There’s so much money behind those things. There’s that hype. You enter a machine. — Chris Pine

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. — Chris Pine