Chris Pine
Chris Pine
Christopher "Chris" Whitelaw Pine is an American actor. He is known for his role as James T. Kirk in Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond. He also appeared in the films The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Just My Luck, Smokin' Aces, Bottle Shock, Unstoppable, This Means War, Rise of the Guardians, Horrible Bosses 2, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Into the Woods, Z for Zachariah, and The Finest Hours...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 August 1980
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm certainly not the lead of the film [Wonder Woman] and I don't have a problem with that.
Working together always works together better...
Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we're duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is "An eye for an eye." Revenge policy; "If you hit me, we'll hit you back worse"; ad infinitum.
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
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.
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.
I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.
The customer is not always right.
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.
It opens Wednesday or Friday.
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.
My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.