Words matter. These are the best Chris Wood Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where you enjoy the process of loathing them so much that you want them to be there. It’s such a weird, twisted thing that our minds do.
I think that I’m lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn’t making enough money to sustain my life, I worked as a male nanny, I waited tables and did what I had to, to keep doing theater and acting.
I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who’s a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who’s been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.
A quiet, non-attention grabbing, ‘Hey, just wanted to say that I enjoy your work’ is perfect.
I studied religions and all kinds of other things in college. I took a Shakespearean villain course for English literature. It was really intense. I think that sort of rounds a person. In this business, it’s really important for us to be interesting… and have interests.
Any other illness, any other disease that we’re faced with, there’s sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, ‘Oh, they’re crazy,’ to belittle the problem.
It wasn’t until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do from six, but I didn’t know how to get there other than working really hard and going to New York and doing theater like I saw on the bios of some of my favorite actors.
I’ve just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.
I only hope that people understand that if I’ve just come from the gym or am fresh off a red-eye flight and look like a sweaty mess, I might not be super keen on photo ops!
I play rec softball sort of religiously. I’m a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I’d go to a Yankees game every week.
Kai was always dead and gone. That was always the plan. That was the plan when I signed on for the role. That was the plan once I was talking to Julie when the role was coming to a close. It was always, ‘He dies and is actually gone.’
I never feel like I’m looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I’m trying to get inside the mind of somebody else.
I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routine.
I drink regular pour-over coffee, black. It’s all about the beans. I’m always stocked at home with single-origin coffees from around the world, never more than two weeks old, kept in airtight containers.
I left ‘Containment’ for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they’ve done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.
If I wasn’t making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits.
I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It’s great to be entrusted with such interesting, unique, and completely separate characters.
I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.
When you get a character that you’re just starting to work on, it’s the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.
