Messina Quotes & Sayings

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future. — Jim Messina

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

Somebody's gonna give you A lesson in leavin' Somebody's gonna give you back What you've been givin' And I hope that I'm around To watch 'em knock you down It's like you to love'em and leave'em Just like you loved me and left me It's like you to do that sort of thing Over and over again You're a fool-hearted man. — Jo Dee 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

Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness. — D.H. Lawrence

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio. — Jim 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

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared. — Jim 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

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home. — Jim Messina

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you. — Jim Messina

Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable. — Lynn Messina

Love is timeless and dependable. It's a safe place where I can breathe. — Jo Dee 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'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult. — Chris Messina

Obama's side was Jim Messina, his campaign manager. — Anonymous

The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important. — Nina Jacobson

Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass. Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness. I am a wise fellow, and which is more, an officer, and which is more, a householder, and which is more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina, and one that knows the law, go to ... and one that hath two gowns, and everything handsome about him. Bring him away. O that I had been writ down an ass! — William Shakespeare

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

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected. — Jo Dee Messina

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation. — Jim Messina

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

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina. — Edward Lear

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

But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars. — Lynn Messina

I never rode on the back of an old
Chopper down the highway
Holdin' on tight just him and I
Makin' our getaway
I've always been the good girl
Walked the straight and narrow path all my life,

I like a man with a tan and a twisted chrome kickstand
Leanin' on a big old bike
The low rollin' sound that'll shake the ground
Comin' out of long pipes
I like a tattoo or two
Or even more if they're cool
On the big old arms of a long-haired dude
Inside of me, there's an all I wanna be
Biker chick — Jo Dee Messina

Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who's anyone in children's literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don't go on hero quests. — Lynn 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

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down. — Ettore Messina

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records. — Jim Messina

Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us. — Jo Dee Messina

I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies. — Maria Grazia Cucinotta

It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar — Kenny Loggins

On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it. — Anders Holm

Of course we're still having the concert. Don't let a little rain ruin your night. — Jo Dee 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

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

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

Keep those who truly love you close at all times. — Jo Dee 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

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things. — Jo Dee Messina

Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy. — Jo Dee Messina

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

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse. — Jim Messina

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

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

We're all in this together. Choose love. — Jo Dee Messina

Invented the #hashtag. — Chris Messina

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina. — Catherine Martin

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving. — Upton Sinclair

Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier, and fight for love? Do you wanna travel the world? Do you wanna be a diver for pearls? Or climb the mountain, and touch the clouds above? Be anyone you want to be. Bring to life your fantasies. But I want something in return, I want you to burn, burn for me, baby. Like a candle in the night. Oh burn, burn for me, burn for me. — Jo Dee Messina

I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs. — Jo Dee Messina

I believe every childhood should be magical. — Jo Dee Messina

My kids remind me every day how much I don't know. — Jo Dee Messina

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today! — Jim Messina