Quotes from Chris Pine

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

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?'

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

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.

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.

I've sung in the shower for years.

My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.

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.

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.

My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The customer is not always right.

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers? Or, 'I have 140,000 friends on Facebook.' What does that even mean? I find it to be a waste of time.

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.

If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

There's certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.

There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.