(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Chris Pine has thanked his parents for helping him to be successful.

The actor had minor roles in American dramas ER and Six Feet Under before landing a role as James T. Kirk in cult movie Star Trek in 2009.

Chris is set to play the famous space traveller again in a forthcoming sequel, and the 30-year-old has thanked his mother and father for drumming a hard-working attitude into him when he was a child. He believes this drive made him what he is today.

Im absolutely driven. Im grateful to my parents for instilling in me a really good work ethic, Chris said.

However, the Californian added that he never considered a career on the silver screen despite the fact his parents worked in the business. His grandfather also had a job connected to show business.

My father is an actor, my mother is an actress, and my grandfather was an entertainment lawyer, so Ive been around it all my life, Chris explained.

Yet he got the acting bug when he went to study. For him, it was a way to socialise and meet people with the same interests.

Funnily enough, I never thought about acting as something to do with my life until I got to college. I got into it then, in the hope of finding a sense of community and friends, I found it satisfied an intellectual need, he said.

Chris enjoys trying to get inside the head of whoever he is playing in a movie, to try and work them out. He thinks this is a great conundrum. I love puzzles and theres a puzzle quality to acting, trying to figure out the character, he said. But, oh man, its a fickle business. (C) Cover Media