"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."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Chris Pratt

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“Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.”
“See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.”
“I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.”
“I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.”
“If people like you, they'll give you a hand. But if they trust you, they'll give you their heart. And heart to heart, we can face anything together.”
“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”

Source : "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.
“Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.”

Source : Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.”

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