Chris Pine

L.A.'s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it's still sunny. And they're still serving Mai Tais.

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.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.

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.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

The customer is not always right.

I think it's a fair criticism to say that we've gotten our fill of superhero films, and audiences should just have different things to choose from when they go to the theaters.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would 'Network' ever be made now? No. Would 'Kramer vs. Kramer' ever be made now? No. Would 'Tootsie' ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never.

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.