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

- Chris Pratt

Forget, Just Be, Read, Just Be Yourself

You want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

- Chris Pratt

Want, Read, GQ, Just Be Yourself

My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.

- Chris Pratt

Cold, Sound, Back, Unmistakable

The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises.

- Chris Pratt

Some, Physical Comedy, Works, Bumps

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

- Chris Pratt

Think, Through, Delusions, Seal

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.

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Fruit, Two, Named, Chef

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

Digital, Set, Ecosystem, Venus

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

I Think, American Audience, Coup

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

Parks, TV, Lot, Airplane

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

Love, Him, Huge Fan, Philip

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

- Chris Pratt

Box, Like, Napping, Garfield

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

Game, My Life, Through, Eaten

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.

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Movie, Line, Very, Starting

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

Lose, Use, Cell, Sony

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

- Chris Pratt

Hollywood, Movie, Bucks, Casting

People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.

- Chris Pratt

Me, People, Like, Gordon

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

- Chris Pratt

Ice, Like, Pour, Ice Cream

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

- Chris Pratt

Shower, Loud, Steam, Blow

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

Good, Deep, Your, Comedic

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.

- Chris Pratt

Working, Only, Else, Everything Else

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

- Chris Pratt

Practice, Stairs, Kid, Wrestler

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

- Chris Pratt

Keep, Getting, Cast, Typecast

It's interesting - 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.

- Chris Pratt

Doing, Being Funny, Always, Stopping

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

- Chris Pratt

Doing, TV, Weeks, Editing Room

When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

- Chris Pratt

Doing, TV, Weeks, Editing Room

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.

- Chris Pratt

Making, Trading, Telling, Jokes

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.

- Chris Pratt

Movie, Line, Very, Attach

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

Woods, Some, Release, Visit

'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

Small, Independent, Movie, Budget

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

Goal, Pretty, Still, Waiter

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