Top 50 Chris Pine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.”

— Chris Pine

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2. “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.”

— Chris Pine

3. “The customer is not always right.”

— Chris Pine

4. “Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.”

— Chris Pine

5. “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

6. “My nipples could cut glass.”

— Chris Pine

7. “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

8. “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

9. “One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who’s good at crossword puzzles.”

— Chris Pine

10. “It opens Wednesday or Friday.”

— Chris Pine

11. “I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.”

— Chris Pine

12. “I do like dating cynics – they tend to be incredibly funny.”

— Chris Pine

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Chris Pine

16. “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

17. “After many years of self-flagellation, I’ve realised that beating myself up doesn’t get me anywhere.”

— Chris Pine

18. “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

19. “Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.”

— Chris Pine

20. “My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.”

— Chris Pine

21. “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.”

— Chris Pine

22. “When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of ‘must happen, must happen.’”

— Chris Pine

23. “No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.”

— Chris Pine

24. “I’m so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.”

— Chris Pine

25. “Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.”

— Chris Pine

26. “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.”

— Chris Pine

27. “I’m more cerebral than I want to be.”

— Chris Pine

28. “My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.”

— Chris Pine

29. “I don’t know any kid that’s not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That’s why they make nightlights.”

— Chris Pine

30. “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

31. “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

32. “My fans have designated themselves the, uh, ‘Pine Nuts.’ They’re a nutty bunch.”

— Chris Pine

33. “Ever since I saw sexy Beast I’ve been trying to get the cockney thing down.”

— Chris Pine

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

— Chris Pine

35. “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

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

— Chris Pine

37. “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

38. “I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was ‘The Avengers.’ The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.”

— Chris Pine

39. “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

40. “Anybody who’s gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.”

— Chris Pine

41. “Even now, I’m better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.”

— Chris Pine

42. “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

43. “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.”

— Chris Pine

44. “I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.”

— Chris Pine

45. “I don’t actually drive trains. I’m an actor.”

— Chris Pine

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

— Chris Pine

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “I talk to myself, especially in the car.”

— Chris Pine