Chris Pine Quotes

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do I want to work hard at doing something musical?' Acting won out, but I do really enjoy those moments where I get to just belt something out.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.

I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!