Chris Pine Quotes

You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Acting is a form of confession.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.