60 Quotes by Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt is a versatile and charismatic actor who has charmed audiences with his endearing performances in a wide range of film and television roles. Rising to prominence with his portrayal of Andy Dwyer in the popular comedy series "Parks and Recreation," Pratt's comedic timing and lovable personality quickly endeared him to fans. He later made a seamless transition to blockbuster films, starring in major franchises like "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Jurassic World." Pratt's ability to infuse humor and vulnerability into his characters has made him a standout talent in the entertainment industry.
Beyond his acting skills, he is known for his down-to-earth nature and relatability, often engaging with fans and displaying genuine gratitude for his success. Pratt's dedication to philanthropy is also noteworthy, as he actively supports various charitable organizations and causes. His passion for wildlife conservation and efforts to help children facing life-threatening illnesses exemplify his commitment to making a positive impact beyond the silver screen. Chris Pratt's journey from a supporting actor on a television sitcom to becoming one of Hollywood's leading men serves as an inspiration to aspiring actors, while his authenticity and philanthropic endeavors have earned him respect as a beloved public figure.
Chris Pratt Quotes
I think any man over 250 pounds rollerblading is instant hilarity. There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.
I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor - I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.
As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role.
Figure out whether or not you believe in yourself, and if you don't, find a way to. Because even more than you want it, you must believe it. And learn about yourself. The rhythm of one's spirit is just as important as what you look like or what you sound like. Who are you? What's your voice? What are you dying to contribute?
Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.
Just be comfortable with who you are.
My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.
It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are.
When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. But with the multi-camera digital setup, you're getting both sides of the scene at the same time, so it gives you that freedom to go off-book.
You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!
I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.
I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. And it can also be practically very nice for a family man to have 9 months out of the year where you're in the city, where you're close to your home.
Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.
I've always been a little soft. I like to eat.
Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.
Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.
The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.
I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.
The challenge is not finding the attitude, but it's really just being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust. The attitude is not something that I intended or created.
Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.
As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.
Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.
Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.
With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.
To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.
America is at war. Go eat a donut.
I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.
I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.
We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.
You can't help but change when you have a kid, and for me it was just a sense of I didn't feel like anything was missing in my life and it wasn't. It all came at just the right time, and now if I am absent from my son, I do feel like something is missing.
I know that me personally I'm different than anyone else, just like our mothers all tell us we're all very special and unique and we are, and I think if an actor can stick to trying to make the character resemble something from their own spirit it will automatically be unique.
I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
I surprised myself with my ability to run. It's kind of like tippy toe running. I would not be able to outrun Indominus Rex, but with enough practice I might be able to make it 40 or 50 feet before I was killed.
I was sowing wild oats and doing the kind of things that you should do when you don't have kids. Now, I'm just doing less of that, but I earned it, you know. I feel like just spending quiet evenings with my wife and son and sitting in bed in the morning and watching him marvel over the curtains opening or whatever little thing. That all feels really good. And so, I've changed because I'm impressed.
Television is such an evolving medium.
Both 'OC' and 'Everwood,' there were people on set where you learned to stay away from them on a bad day.
Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the Parks and Recreation characters.
I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.
The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.
Celebrity is intoxicating.
I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.
I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.
People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.
I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.
If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood, but I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally. To be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad again, and then ashamed. Then, you try to hide those feelings with more food.
What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.
You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.
A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.
When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.
One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.
Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.
With moviemaking, you can be halfway around the world for six months. So there are amazing benefits to doing TV, and with the platform change and the way it is, I would never ever rule out doing TV again.
I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'
Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.
I don't even know how I ended up with the woman that I'm with!
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