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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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The Big Challenge For

Chris Pratt

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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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