Chris Pine
If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.
I try to live joyfully and the by the rule of treating others how you'd want to be treated - that's a good one to stick by.
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.Collection: Monday
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.Collection: Good Life
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.Collection: Teenager
Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Giving
My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.Collection: Witty
Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.Collection: Success
I think it's not fair to the uniqueness and wonderfulness of the individuals, that we can complement one another greatly, but we are not the source of each other's happiness, especially if you don't know who the hell you're talking to.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Coffee
I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.Collection: Actors
Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.Collection: People
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?"Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Letting Go
My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.Collection: Two
Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.Collection: Gone
[ 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.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Years
Working together always works together better... it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures.Collection: Working Together
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Smart
I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.Collection: Want
It's a fun thing for journalists to say that Captain Kirk is the boyfriend role. I'm happy to give a laugh. But it's a really complex story.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Worry
It opens Wednesday or Friday.Collection: Friday
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.Collection: Fun
No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.Collection: Thinking
My nipples could cut glass.Collection: Cutting
It feels great to not be the acne-ridden outsider that I felt like when I was in high school. It's a lot more fun being alive now than it was then, I'll say that much.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Revenge
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.Collection: Beautiful
I'm certainly not the lead of the film 'Wonder Woman' and I don't have a problem with that.Collection: Wonder Woman
When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.Collection: Emotional
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.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Spiritual
I think the desire to be with someone beautiful...I just had such a different experience growing up. To be in a position where you're lauded for things that you don't own - and don't think of yourself as - it's so bizarre.Collection: Beautiful
Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Jobs
Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.Collection: Sexy
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.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Believe
Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.Collection: Programming