Pine: "I'm more cerebral than I want to be."

Pine: "Mediocrity scares me. 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."

Pine: "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."

Pine: "You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you."

Pine: "Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions."

Pine: "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."

Pine: "You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward."

Pine: "Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it."

Pine: "I like this idea of becoming fully realised."

Pine: "I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality."

Pine: "I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable."

Pine: "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."

Pine: "What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?

Pine: "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."

Pine: "There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up."

Pine: "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."

Pine: "After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere."

Pine: "Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are."

Pine: "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?'"

Pine: "Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I don't know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you're actually doing some of the stunts, then it's not so hard at all, because there's an actual fear there."

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

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."

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

Pine: "The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen."

Pine: "You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation."

Pine: "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."

Pine: "A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope."