Quotes from Chris Pine

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

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.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

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.

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.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness

Therapy's like going to the gym.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is "should." I "should" have done this. Or I "should" do that. "Should" implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

I had a nose tickle.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is your perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

It's mistakes that make us who we are.

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.

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.

'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.

Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.

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.

I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I'm just in love with the cars. I'm in love with all of it.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

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

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.