Chris Pine

“I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they're incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.”

“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.”

“Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.”

“Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.”

“One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.”

“The customer is not always right.”

“I think we just live in a time of the selfie. So there's a sense that everyone's uniqueness and importance on this planet should be displayed and reveled in, and that there's kind of a piece of glory for everyone.”

“I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.”

“Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.”

“The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the 'Gilmore Girls,' and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.”

“It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.”

“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.”

“There's certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.”

“Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.”

“I've sung in the shower for years.”

“Therapy's like going to the gym.”

“I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.”

“I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. 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.”

“Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.”

“I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.”