Chris Pine’s memorable line from Wonder Woman reminds us that choosing to act in the face of injustice is a responsibility, not an option.Image credit (Instagram)​
Chris Pine is having one of the busiest and most varied stretches of his career. His romantic drama ‘Carousel,’ in which he plays a single father whose life is upended by the return of his high school ex, opened the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in January to strong reviews, with IndieWire writing that his work in the film lands with the force of discovery. He is currently in talks to star opposite Emma Stone in a romantic comedy. He is also set to lead the survival thriller ‘Yeti’ and the alien invasion comedy ‘Alpha Gang’ alongside Cate Blanchett and Dave Bautista, and is in pre-production on the action film ‘Run the Night,’ as per The Cinema Holic.He also made headlines this year when he told journalists about the new ‘Star Trek’ film being developed without him, sending it off with characteristic Pine ease, saying simply, “Have fun, good luck, live long and prosper,” according to Variety. Through all of this momentum, a line he delivered nine years ago as Steve Trevor in ‘Wonder Woman’ continues to be the one that people come back to.The quote of the day reads, ‘If you see something wrong happening in the world, you can either do nothing, or you can do something.’
Meaning of the quote of the day by Chris Pine
Chris Pine delivers this line as Steve Trevor in ‘Wonder Woman,’ directed by Patty Jenkins and released in 2017. The moment comes as Trevor is explaining to Diana, who has never left her island home, why he is willing to return to a war that has already broken him, why he cannot simply turn away from the horror of what he has witnessed, and why inaction, for him, is no longer a real option. It is one of the most quietly powerful pieces of dialogue in the superhero genre, and it lands the way it does precisely because Pine delivers it with an exhaustion and a simplicity that makes it feel like something a real person might say rather than a scripted line.
