Chris Pine Net Worth

Chris Pine's Quotes

• [on fame] If the worst thing that happens in your life is that you're asked the same question repeatedly for a month, and people look very interested while they're talking to you and wanting to know about you, think about every day you worked at that restaurant and every day you worked as a delivery man for Domino's, every day you were a host, every day you were a bartender and worked until 4 a.m. And then just be very grateful.
• [2009] I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control. I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.
• My mom was an actress for many years, and my father has been an actor since he came out here [Hollywood] from New York in 1964 and was under contract at Universal for many years. My grandmother was a B-movie actress at Universal, and my sister was an actress for a while, but then she did a bunch of other stuff... so I've been around it all my life. 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.
• [2006] 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. So if you have positive good energy, hopefully good things will come to you from the universe... I definitely have a spiritual outlook. 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. I am not a religious guy, I am probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful. 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. It is not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it is 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?".
• [2006] I took part in a theater festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking I am going to go to New York. I had 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. I think that when you let go and throw it all away and stop getting attached and say whatever happens, happens, you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out. As an actor, it is 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 am lucky.

Interesting Facts about Chris Pine

1. Grandson of Anne Gwynne and Max M. Gilford.
2. Son of Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford.
3. Younger brother of Katherine Pine.
4. Cousin of Martin Jurow and William Eliscu.
5. Was ranked #27 on Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" the actors list (2008).
6. Was seriously considered for the lead role in Tron (2010).
7. Beat Mike Vogel for the role of James T. Kirk in Star Trek (2009).
8. One of Variety magazine's Top Ten Actors to watch (2008).
9. Received his Bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
10. Studied acting at the University of Leeds in England and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
11. US Weekly magazine called him "the new Harrison Ford".
12. Close friends with his Star Trek (2009) co-stars Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho and Anton Yelchin (who passed away 06/19/2016).
13. Frequents Los Angeles bar The Roger Room along with Jason Sarayba, John Mayer and Samantha Ronson.
14. In 2009, he visited Auschwitz in Poland and the city of Mostar in Bosnia while traveling around Europe.
15. Enjoys skeet shooting.
16. In April 2009, along with several of the cast and crew, he visited Camp Arijan in Kuwait to show Star Trek (2009) to a group of US service members.
17. After college, he won a place at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), which has produced luminaries like Richard Harris, Jim Broadbent, John Lithgow, Donald Sutherland, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amy Irving, Stephen Moyer, etc., but a lack of funds, and the prospect of student loan debts, stopped him from doing this course in London.
18. Chris's maternal grandfather, Max M. Gilford (born Max Goldfarb), was the son of Jewish emigrants from Russia. Chris's other ancestry includes English, French, German and Welsh.
19. Auditioned for the role of Jake Sulley in Avatar (2009) but lost to Sam Worthington. Pine stated that it was the "worst audition [he's] ever done".
20. At age 27 at the time of filming, was the youngest actor to play the lead in a Star Trek film or series.