Chris Messina Quotes
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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.
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Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.
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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.
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I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.
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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.
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Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
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I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.
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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.
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That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.
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I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.
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The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
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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.
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I haven't watched a lot of television, but when I was kid, I watched 'All in the Family,' and I liked Archie and Edith a lot.
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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.
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Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.
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I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.
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I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
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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.