Words matter. These are the best Chris Messina Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, ‘Oh, I get that scene now… Oh, that whole ending – I wish I could have done another shot.’
The truth is really funny. It’s uncomfortable sometimes, it’s dramatic sometimes, but it’s really funny. Life is funny.
I’m from Long Island. Strong Island.
My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.
I like talking about acting. I’m comfortable talking about acting.
One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don’t know the fate of your character until you’re reading the script. I always look forward to finding out.
I like funny things, but I don’t find myself particularly funny.
I don’t have much interest in gingerbread houses – except in eating them.
I am a big fan of movies from the ’70s.
I’ve spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
There’s been a lot of times that I thought I’d never work again; I was really bummed out.
You don’t get to rehearse much on TV. You are kind of rehearsing on film. Depending on the way you work, that’s either a good thing or a bad thing.
Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.
When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it’s like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone’s talking about head shots… It just turned me off. I was like, ‘What is this? I don’t understand this. People are singing in the hallways.’
I don’t know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.
A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic… I’m not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don’t think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.
I’m lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I’m just lucky to have gotten work.
For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They’d be like, ‘How do I know you?’ After, we’d play a guessing game. I’d say, ‘I’m an actor,’ and they’d go, ‘Oh, what have you been in?’ I’d list my credits, and they wouldn’t really remember me.
When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.
I’m not a cook. I don’t think I ever will be.
I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we’re 99 years old and I have a pipe and she’s knitting a sweater, and I hope that’s the way it goes. I think it’s a challenge every day.
It’s always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project – let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
When I’m doing a drama, I like to find the comedy; when I’m doing a comedy, I like to find the heart and drama.
I love ‘Boardwalk Empire.’ I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
How precise you need to be when you’re in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult.
That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.
Doing something like ‘Damages,’ I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.
Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.
I’m from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.
I was in a movie called ‘Before & After’ with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.