Chris Pine Quotes

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only way to be in touch with your emotions.

Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you're in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.

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.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.

To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.