Chris Pratt Quotes

I love it when a director says, 'I don't know.'

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down.

Whenever offers come my way, if I connect with it, then I am completely open to it.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

Sometimes we can make everything a little too perfect. I always was a fan of giving direction, but every now and then going, "I don't know. What do you think? Let's see what happens."

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based on what the other person gives me. I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

You can't be controlling in improv.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.