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Chris Pine

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 26, 1980

I love the spy genre.

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With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.

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

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Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.

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I clearly haven't made a good enough impression on people. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

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I love architecture.

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For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.

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

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

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I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.

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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.

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I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

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

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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?

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I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

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As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'

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I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

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Lying does exist in crazy forms.

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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.

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At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

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