Pratt: "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."

Pratt: “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.”

Pratt: "There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading."

Pratt: “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.”

Pratt: “America is at war. Go eat a donut.”

Pratt: “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.”

Pratt: “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.”

Pratt: "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."

Pratt: “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.”

Pratt: "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."

Pratt: “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.”

Pratt: “I don't even know how I ended up with the woman that I'm with!”

Pratt: “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?”

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

Pratt: "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."

Pratt: “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.”

Pratt: “You want to be conscious and put a lot of effort into experiencing the moment. Like, This is going away. I want to take it in. You can’t take it in any harder than just being present to it. So I’m being present.”

Pratt: “I didn’t know that I would kind of become the face of religion when really I’m not a religious person. I think there’s a distinction between being religious—adhering to the customs created by man, oftentimes appropriating the awe reserved for who I believe is a very real God—and using it to control people, to take money from people, to abuse children, to steal land, to justify hatred. Whatever it is. The evil that’s in the heart of every single man has glommed on to the back of religion and come along for the ride.”

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

Pratt: “I mean, I think it’s appalling that for a long time only women were objectified. But I think if we want to really advocate for equality, it’s important to not objectify women less, but just objectify men as often as we objectify women.”

Pratt: “Well, you know, I think any person who appreciates a tradition and asks a father for his daughter's hand in marriage…it's inevitably going to be something that makes you a little nervous, but that's sort of the beauty of it, you know?”

Pratt: "One really good thing that I learned, right when I was learning to drive, was that the chunk of cement that’s closest to your house, connects to every major monument in this country, through a system of roads. Your driveway connects to a road that connects to another road that connects to a highway, and with enough gas money and an automobile, you can see Mt. Rushmore, you can see the Grand Canyon, you can see Yellowstone, you can see the White House, you can go down to the Florida Keys, and you can see Montana in about 17 days. There’s just a great and beautiful country, and it was designed to be driven across."

Pratt: "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."

Pratt: "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."

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

Pratt: "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."

Pratt: "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."

Pratt: "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."

Pratt: "Celebrity is intoxicating."

Pratt: "I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore."

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

Pratt: "I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape."

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

Yahoo News: Pratt, who has gained and lost weight several times over for different roles, says he’s simply part of a time-honored Hollywood tradition. “There are a lot of women who got careers out of [their bodies], and I am using it to my advantage,” said Pratt. “And at the end of the day, our bodies are objects. We’re just big bags of flesh and blood and meat and organs that God gives us to drive around.”

Vox: Pratt’s religiosity, for example, seems refreshingly free of the politics of past evangelicalism. He isn’t endorsing political candidates or going on right-wing talk radio.

Vox: But for all his seeming conservatism, Pratt walks a very careful line. He has never expressed support for President Trump, and he has talked about wanting to be a “bridge” between left and right. In reality, he is already poised to act as a bridge between evangelicals and Hollywood and, perhaps, introduce the possibility that one can be in both worlds but not of them. Or at least not an asshole.