I'm more cerebral than I want to be. Chris Pine More Quotes by Chris Pine More Quotes From Chris Pine 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 views monday morning I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had bad skin as a teenager and I am a shy person, but I think I am in the perfect business to fight my insecurities. You have to learn to love yourself and say 'I am pretty cool' instead of being so critical. You can easily fall into the trap of doing that. Chris Pine teenager love-you fall 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 good-life creating reality 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 karma fate believe 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 use trying giving I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go. Chris Pine healthy past thinking I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny. Chris Pine dating Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker. Chris Pine bunkers faces running 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 lap perspective fall 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 saws fans choices No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do. Chris Pine individual matter reason My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment. Chris Pine enough brain witty I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may. Chris Pine couple letting-go thinking I think the desire to be with someone beautiful...I just had such a different experience growing up. To be in a position where you're lauded for things that you don't own - and don't think of yourself as - it's so bizarre. Chris Pine growing-up beautiful thinking Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. Chris Pine dating-someone incredibles opposites 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 envious eyebrows faces 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 new-job size jobs One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles. Chris Pine crosswords sexy girl I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally. Chris Pine late shy kids I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie. Chris Pine new-york summer jobs
