Top 50 Chris Pratt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Chris Pratt

2. “If you wait for things to be perfect you’ll just miss out on life.”

— Chris Pratt

3. “Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.”

— Chris Pratt

4. “Just be comfortable with who you are.”

— Chris Pratt

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

— Chris Pratt

6. “People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.”

— Chris Pratt

7. “I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, I may as well get paid.”

— Chris Pratt

8. “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

9. “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.”

— Chris Pratt

10. “You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!”

— Chris Pratt

11. “There’s nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.”

— Chris Pratt

12. “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

13. “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

14. “America is at war. Go eat a donut.”

— Chris Pratt

15. “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.”

— Chris Pratt

16. “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

17. “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

18. “Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in ‘GQ’ magazine.”

— Chris Pratt

19. “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

20. “To go to the Oscars for ‘Moneyball’ – that was pretty amazing.”

— Chris Pratt

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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.”

— Chris Pratt

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for ‘Moneyball’ to almost 270-280 pounds for ‘Ten Year.’”

— Chris Pratt

28. “We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.”

— Chris Pratt

29. “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

30. “As long as I keep getting cast, I don’t care if it’s typecast.”

— Chris Pratt

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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.”

— Chris Pratt

35. “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

36. “Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.”

— Chris Pratt

37. “Both ‘OC’ and ‘Everwood,’ there were people on set where you learned to stay away from them on a bad day.”

— Chris Pratt

38. “I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.”

— Chris Pratt

39. “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

40. “I don’t have any delusions. I don’t think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.”

— Chris Pratt

41. “A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”

— Chris Pratt

42. “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

43. “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.”

— Chris Pratt

44. “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

45. “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

46. “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

47. “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

48. “Television is such an evolving medium.”

— Chris Pratt

49. “Celebrity is intoxicating.”

— Chris Pratt

50. “I’d love to work with Steve Martin. I’d love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.”

— Chris Pratt