Chris Pratt famous quotes

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Baseball #Mean #Daddy

If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.
-- Chris Pratt

#Perfect #Waiting #Missing

Just be comfortable with who you are.
-- Chris Pratt

#Who You Are

Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.
-- Chris Pratt

#Two #White #Perfect

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#People #Challenges #Trying

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Feelings #Trying #Hollywood

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Mother #Character #Unique

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Attitude #Challenges #Trying

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Sweet #Stars #Mean

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Nice #Intelligent #Who We Are

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Drama #Careers #People

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Track #Laughing #Moments

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Directors #Stopping #Stuff

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Book #Light #Opposites

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Hero #Cracks #Actors

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Jobs #Hair #Looks

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Cutting #Hair #Fake

I don't even know how I ended up with the woman that I'm with!
-- Chris Pratt

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Sweet #Goal #Oscars

I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.
-- Chris Pratt

#Thinking #Stories #Television

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Opportunity #Stories #Tvs

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It's just more dense and there's more time to tell stories.
-- Chris Pratt

#Character #People #Stories

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
-- Chris Pratt

#Running #Light #Ecosystems

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.
-- Chris Pratt

#Wife #Looks #Actors

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?
-- Chris Pratt

#Believe #Voice #Important

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 Rec' characters.
-- Chris Pratt

#New York #Airplane #Character

America is at war. Go eat a donut.
-- Chris Pratt

#War #America #Donuts

Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.
-- Chris Pratt

#Problem #Leslie #Symptoms

There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.
-- Chris Pratt

#Men #Giants #Rollerblading

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Drama #Knowing #People

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.
-- Chris Pratt

#Oscars

You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!
-- Chris Pratt

#Ice Cream #Ice #Sauce

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Sea #Two #Tree

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Real #Drama #Character

'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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Independent #Years #Giants

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.'
-- Chris Pratt

#Teacher #Thinking #Bridesmaids

You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' 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. 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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Jobs #Cutting #Hair

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Beer #Two #Want

Television is such an evolving medium.
-- Chris Pratt

#Television #Evolve #Mediums

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Hurt #Pain #Fall

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Fans #Actors #All Time

Celebrity is intoxicating.
-- Chris Pratt

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.
-- Chris Pratt

#Thinking #Training #Navy

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.
-- Chris Pratt

#Bars #Beets #Salad

I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
-- Chris Pratt

#Phones #Cells #Use

As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.
-- Chris Pratt

#Long #Care #Casts

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.
-- Chris Pratt

#Ideas #Pay #Way

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'
-- Chris Pratt

#Cutting #Years #Pounds

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.
-- Chris Pratt

#Bills

I've always been a little soft. I like to eat.
-- Chris Pratt

#Littles

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
-- Chris Pratt

#Games #Weird Things #Possums

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#One Day #Looks

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#Thoughtful #Lines #Planning

I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.
-- Chris Pratt

#Monday #Garfield #Boxes

Both 'OC' and 'Everwood,' there were people on set where you learned to stay away from them on a bad day.
-- Chris Pratt

#Bad Day #People

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.
-- Chris Pratt

#People #Rifles #Goes On

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.
-- Chris Pratt

#Being Yourself #Magazines #Stuff

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
-- Chris Pratt

#Blow #Way #My Favorite

People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.
-- Chris Pratt

#People #Looks