Chris Messina Quotes & Sayings

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks. — Chris Messina

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. — Chris Messina

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it. — Chris Messina

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around. — Chris Messina

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny. — Chris Messina

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. — Chris Messina

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.' — Chris Messina

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director. — Chris Messina

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s. — Chris Messina

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. — Chris Messina

The rain probably dampened the spirits of those that decided not to come. But the people who were here didn't know it was raining because they were having so much fun. — Chris Messina

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be — Chris Messina

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. — Chris Messina

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside. — Chris Messina

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out. — Chris Messina

Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have? — Chris Messina

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. — Chris Messina

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult. — Chris Messina

If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be. — Chris Messina

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played. — Chris Messina

I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be. — Chris Messina

Invented the #hashtag. — Chris Messina

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island. — Chris Messina

Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around. — Chris Messina